The super bears believe in a euro-crack up, the U.S. going to single A or even triple B credit rating, and maybe even defaulting.

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Paulson says it's "naive for any of us to think that when you're dealing with a situation of this magnitude that a bill could be passed or a single action could be taken" to dig the U.S. out of its economic rut.

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In light of that that gift, which was then the largest single gift ever to a U.S. medical school or to the University of California, officials renamed the institution the David Geffen School of Medicine.

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Indeed, the Casey Institute has yet to find a single U.S. investment bank, public pension fund, mutual fund or insurance company which includes a national security-related review in its "due diligence" assessments of emerging market entities.

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"The U.S. Department of Defense has never and will never single out a particular religious group for persecution or prosecution, " assured Lt.

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