A-ha-ha-choo!

When the U.S.A. sneezes, the world catches cold. Or, as an economist might put it: “In the eventuation of a domestic near-term involuntary oral particulate expulsion, there exists a probability of a subsequent respiratory disorder precipitated on one or multiple nondomestic vanguards.” Cartoonists around the world are more succinct. Singapore’s Heng took a Chicken Little approach. (This guy is falling! This guy is falling!) In India, Paresh characterized it as a cliffhanger. And Tunin in Moscow was singin’ the same ‘toon.

-- Joel Pett