An old adage in economics was that When the United States sneezes the rest of the world catches a cold. In the first half of 2007, growth in the United States slowed, while over the same period growth in the Eurozone accelerated and growth in Japan almost doubled. It still is true that the Central Southern American and Canadian economies remain susceptible to the importation of recession from the United States. But the spillover of a US recession to the rest of the world seems less likely these days because the US economy no longer has the same clout as it used to have.
Question: The fact that the 2001 US recession was accompanied by a sharp slowdown in the rest of the world, while the 1982 US recession was not widely reflected, can be taken to be evidence in support of the hypotheses offered in the passage.
Options:
A. true, B. false, C. uncertain
Answer: B