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Wells Capital’s Paulsen Discusses Euro-Zone Debt Crisis: Video

May 26 (Bloomberg) — James Paulsen, chief investment strategist at Wells Capital Management, talks with Bloomberg’s Betty Liu about Europe’s debt crisis, government intervention to curb the turmoil and market sentiment. (This is an excerpt of the full interview. Source: Bloomberg)

Duration : 0:2:29

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What are the health care challenges of the global economic crisis?

How has the global economic crisis affected health care?

Broke jobless people can’t afford insurance, or health care, or medicine.

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Posted by admin - May 30, 2010 at 1:49 am

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An Inconvenient Truth – What action can you do in order to resolve global crisis?

1.) Why was the documentary film entitled "An Inconvenient Truth"?

2.) Based on the research made by students. What are the effects of Global Warming? At least 5…

3.) If you were Al Gore, how would you convince people to get involved in solving Global Warming?

4.) As a citizen or person, what action can you do starting today to resolve the global crisis? At least 5…

That’s pretty hard to answer, especially because I haven’t read the book yet. Anyway, I beg to differ to those above me. Some people are very pathetic forcing themselves to believe that it is not true or that it is "natural", just because they don’t want to be taxed a single dollar more. I can’t believe there are such paupers in a country with the largest economy in the world. Pitiful…

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What’s a non-fiction book on the US national debt crisis?

What’s a non-fiction book on the US national debt crisis? I need a new book to read and I’m interested in the US debt crisis.

"The Coming First World Debt Crisis" by
Ann Pettifor
The author predicted the current economic situation. You can read a sample chapter at this link:

http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?is=0230007848

You might also want to check out
"The Truth About the National Debt: Five Myths…" by Francis X. Cavanaugh

http://books.google.com/books?id=UDpvICcVsEgC&dq=book:+US+national+debt+crisis&pg=PP1&ots=N5Hy49TUNt&source=in&sig=Po9IWt6bNliCsyObAu1h_n7OT8I&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=11&ct=result

See also: "Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises" by Charles P. Kindleberger and Robert Aliber

http://www.amazon.com/Manias-Panics-Crashes-Financial-Investment/dp/0471467146/ref=pd_sim_b_1

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Is the European debt crisis good for the American dollar?

Is the European dept crisis good for the American dollar? It seems that the Euro has been over inflated for years, so is this debt crisis going to level out the Euro, and make the dollar stronger?

It depends on what you mean by good. At least in the short run, and you can see this happening now, there is something of a "flight to quality" that is driving people to purchase U.S. debt and buy dollars, which is strengthening the dollar. In some ways this, is good, as it makes it cheaper for Americans to purchase from Europe, for example. In other ways, it is bad, as it makes U.S. exports to other countries more expensive for them to buy.

In the longer term, it depends on what ultimately happens in Europe. A minority see the Euro being abandoned, while the more common belief is that Eurozone will muddle through one way or another, keeping together if only because dissolving the Euro would be the worse of two evils. If the Eurozone economies as a whole go under trying to bail out Greece, Spain, Italy, etc., that would be unequivocally bad for the dollar and the world as a whole.

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What are the effects of the financial crisis on the confectionary industry?

How did the global financial crisis affect consumption and production regarding the confectionery market?

I suspect that the sales of sweets have gone up since people like to treat themselves when things aren’t going well. Chocolate is a great source of serotonin, which is a brain chemical that makes you feel good.

Don’t take drugs, eat chocolate!

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