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Is the US heading for economic disaster?

More than nine per cent of the United States workforce have no jobs, and a sixth of the country lives on food stamps. But is the US on a crash course towards economic disaster?

Matt Frei asks if America is in terminal decline.

Watch an extended interview with Google professor David Cheriton.

Broadcast on Monday 27 June 2011.

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