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And joining us, opinion.com editor, james taranto. these are huge loans, how big a problem is it? >> its a big problem and the interesting number, the amount of outstamping student loan debt doubled in the past five years during this dismal economy. when you think about it, it makes sense. what do young people do when they cant get jobs? they park themselves in school and try to get another credential in hopes of improving their employment prospect later. but, as a result of this, they end up go...

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Needs to downsize. >> well, i think that -- well, the pension system. i think that we have to do is look realistically and put public employees under something like most private corporations have gone to so i think that some of the promises that its made under its pension system, ie, that you can have a defined benefit at the end of your work lifetime i think that would be one area. i think in terms of many of the higher education facilities, you know, higher education, theres a peter principle ...

Normal after a big debt bubble to have a slow economy during a period of deleveraging. the other problem is if you think back to what happened in 2008 when the financial markets went into free-fall on the back of the lehman brothers shock, that caused a really nasty hit to the global economy, because many businesses panicked and credit was squeezed. now the risk were seeing right now is something similar, could potentially play out later this year. the good news is that actually, the direct expo...