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These trade policy pressures, characterized as “incoherent,” added complications to global supply chains that ultimately snowballed into the company’s financial collapse and bankruptcy filing.

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"I think the scale of this inquiry will be enormous. There are so many people who don't even know they are victims yet and it is going to snowball at an alarming pace," she added.

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The situation can snowball out of control as the government taps into reserves to defend the currency.

The U.S. lifeline has for now stopped a run on the peso that risked snowballing into a deeper financial crisis, economists say.

"I've turned up expecting to go out in the first or second round, but every round I gave it another go, and it just snowballed," Mr Cross added.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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