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Debt. The debt is a huge problem just like a cancer patient has a problem with pain. But it isnt healthy to be but it is analytically unhelpful to be thinking in terms of the debt crisis. We might as well refer to the crisis we are going through as the savings crisis, a crisis caused by too much savings. You have never heard anyone from bloomberg refer to it as a crisis of a glut of money with nowhere to go, but it is, just as much as it is a crisis of debt. Lets begin at the beginning. Lets tal...

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to brookings. Peter singer and i are the scholars here who work with the 20th century federal security on intelligence. Peter runs that. I am a senior fellow. Today, we have the pleasure hosting a great group of army and rain course specialists on the broad subset subject of the future of land power and warfare. Todays news bulletins and the initial leaks on where the defense review and where the president posses new Budget Proposal will go are helping us create o...

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Fails to capture but took drugs baron. The team dubbed the fast of enemy number one seeds out i had running for a full time despite his recent poll help the seventy six year old algerian president abdel aziz bit of a knee cap is set to run in elections in april. Whats the fuss but that news or monotone but just listen. We begin in the ukrainian capital was the midday a rapidly moving developments. It was exactly three months ago state of the fullness of the country was plunged into crisis pullin...

I will relax because i got news or months old but is false. We begin on the Crimean Peninsula where russian flags flying high and celebrations the seating be in full swing with thousands taking to the streets of soft the regions one off canadian voters overwhelmingly get that back into motion to break with ukraine. Join russia. Russian media sources of st more than ninety percent of voters favored becoming a pot of russia in the timeout was in excess of fifty percent of the west is maintained fr...

Truck in his memory. They should have been celebrating. Today would be tonys 28th anniversary with the department. He serves as a firefighter paramedic throughout his entire career. He was on the tractor last night clearing his property to prepare for the storm when he went off the side of a legal, rolled 200 and died. The fire got the call and the agency where his brothers work as firefighters. I feel for the Contra Costa Fire Department out there trying to rescue knowing that it was one of the...

Default, our country has been bouncing back these last few days. A recovery from a largely self inflicted wound it is still an example on a very large scale of a sort of resilience some individuals demonstrate when faced with setbacks and even near fatal disasters, Susan Spencer will be looking into some striking personal examples in our sunday morning cover story. Attacked by a shark at age 41, mickey glen almost died and did lose the use of her right hand, but today, she refuses to dwell on an...

An interesting question. Should we have a more robust concept of diminished responsibility in light of the understanding that some people have less control over their preferences and desires or should we have better sentencing schemes or get rid of incarceration and come up with different models of trying to deal with punishment once we understand people have wrong selections. I think those are all interesting questions, but is there free will . Well, the fact that almost everybody in the audien...

It . Now that we understand that those of us in the audience or up here that like chocolate cake may not have control over it, how do we want to account for that if at all in the criminal Justice System . To date, we havent. In the future, we may wish to. I agree with that. I think that, first of all, the fact that everybody in the audience could control themselves raising their hands gives me some comfort as i walk out the door, but one of the problems with the disconnect that i was alluding to...

With different models of trying to deal with punishment once we understand people have wrong selections. I think those are all interesting questions, but is there free will . Well, the fact that almost everybody in the audience raised either their right or left hand contemplated it and were quickly able to act and respond. That to me says, yes, there is. Now what do we want to do about it . Now that we understand that those of us in the audience or up here that like chocolate cake may not have c...