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who has proven prescient in predicting political change. then, what was andres breivik thinking? the oslo killer was in court this week. we'll analyze what he said next. and can europe survive? can the euro survive? should the u.s. government slash its budgets the way european governments are? i was in london earlier this week and sat down with a star-studded panel to sort things out. but first, here's my take. watching the apec summit in hawaii last week, i had a feeling we were entering a new phase of global geopolitics. for decades now, those summits have been occasions for asi...

150%, something like that in greece. a lot of people wondering is the united states heading down the path of greece. how close could we come? >> that's the exact right question. what does greece mean for us? we don't have the same competitiveness problem but if you look at this next chart we have a debt problem that is growing at a massive pace. and you can see here, that back in 2004, our debt to gdp was only 37%. was only about 37%. and then it started to rise and today, it's 73%. and it's rising, and it's rising rapidly. the dotted line across the middle is greece. these are cbo numbers. th...