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Finding Optimism in the Global Economy

8:10 PM ET Sun, 7 Oct 2012

Parag Khanna, Director, Hybrid Reality Institute says recent signs are pointing to positivity in the global economy. He also discusses Jack Welch's comments that the U.S. jobs data has been 'cooked'.

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