These days, the fear is that institutions that sold insurance on Greek debt -- Greek credit default swaps -- will be obliged to pay up if Greece were to officially default. And that they won't be able to meet that obligation, leading to global credit freeze 2.0.
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In contrast to Iowa, where the drama of the campaign played out in coffee shops and small town halls, and where voters took pride in meeting the candidates personally -- the contest in the Sunshine State has scaled up.
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Paul Solman looks at a pair of posts on the Eurocrunch -- about where the action really is.
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As Egyptians amassed in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Tuesday to mark the one-year anniversary of the start of their regime-changing revolution, many are still divided on where they see the country going.
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If you speak more than one language, please join The PBS Newshour's volunteer translation team. Help us translate the words of President Obama's State of the Union address as well as Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels' Republican response into as many languages as possible.
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A new study found that the perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) in products are associated with lowered immune response to vaccinations in children. It is the first study to document how PFCs can adversely affect vaccine response. These pollutants can be transferred to children prenatally and postnatally from environmental exposure.
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Business and economics correspondent Paul Solman considers the role of money moving quickly into and out of a country as part of the reason why there have been so many financial crises in the last 30 years.
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