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The US government is making commitments to retirees that it can't fulfill.
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American business has become international, Hormats says.
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Robert Hormats works on international financial transactions at Goldman Sachs.
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From growing in segregated Baltimore, to working with Henry Kissinger.
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Government and discourse has been co-opted; media can get it back.
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We will end up like South Korea unless we build our education system.
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The course of history has followed the wills of the powerful.
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A shift from Catholicism to Asian philosophy.
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Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne on Oracle of Omaha.
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Full faith in education as progress in the US.
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The entire regulatory system is compromised.
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Byrne explains the illegal practice of borrowing and selling phantom shares of publicly traded companies. He argues Americans; savings are undermined by naked shorting.