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18 Sep, 2011

US needs a wake-up call, says new Friedman book – Arab News

Faced with stagnating unemployment numbers, an historic credit downgrade by S&P, and partisan rancor over how to reduce the US debt, the two foreign policy columnists tap into public hunger for answers.

“People are getting more and more concerned. When you see the polls, you find a large majority feels the country is on the wrong track,” Mandelbaum told Reuters.

The authors, who describe themselves as “frustrated optimists,” attempt to diagnose America’s problems and prescribe solutions to return to a robust economy.

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