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Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: No Laughing Matter: A Look at the European Debt Crisis Through Cartoons

Updated: November 22 2012,
Author: barrel jason
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Budget Deficits and Public Debt, Credit, Risk and Return, Roles of Government
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Lee Buchheit, a lawyer who helped mastermind Greece’s debt restructuring earlier this year, and investor Hans Humes explain the wrangling behind-the-scenes of Europe’s debt crises to economics correspondent Paul Solman, all with a little help from some cartoonists.

AIR DATE: Nov. 22, 2012

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