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After all, medieval alchemists engaged in what we now consider an absurd search for ways to transform base metals into gold.
PARIS - As the economic crisis deepens and widens, the world has been searching for historical analogies to help us understand what has been happening.
What was true for the alchemists of yore remains true today: gold and reason are often difficult to reconcile.
What, for example, will happen to a country as central and vulnerable as Egypt when hundred of thousands of Egyptians working in the Gulf are forced to return to their homeland as a result of the crisis in the oil-producing countries?