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It's a good bet that things are getting dire when a government starts talking about preventing investors from pulling their money out of the country. Crisis-torn Ukraine imposed controls on cross-border capital flows while awaiting an International Monetary Fund bailout earlier this year. Venezuela has employed them in a spectacularly unsuccessful effort to keep its economy from collapsing.

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