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Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Is the U.S. the Latest World Power in Decline?

Updated: March 2 2010,
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Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Budget Deficit, Budgeting, Business Costs and Revenues, Credit, Goods and Services, Market Structure, Productivity
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As part of his series of economic reports examining the country’s economic future, Paul Solman sits down with Yale historian Paul Kennedy.

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