But it is telling that even after the debt-ceiling debate and the credit-rating downgrade, global investors remain happy to buy American debt because they still see America as a haven in a troubled world.
I've got an idea about how we can actually move this forward over the next few months and I'll be working on this, and I think it's not impossible that the groundwork that was done at Copenhagen could lead to what you might call a global agreement that everybody is happy to stand by.
Late one night this week, your columnist met a young global leader who, after a happy drinking session, had wound up outside the wrong hotel.
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Yet while most people have read of the threat of rising sea levels and melting polar caps, or experienced a nagging guilt when booking a cheap flight or buying exotic fruit imported from the other side of the planet, hitherto global warming has largely been something we are happy to leave to the scientists to worry about.
That is, he wants Forbes readers to believe that, to the extent that global warming is happening, all consequences will be happy ones.
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If the numbers prove to be wrong, so be it, as long as the global rating agencies and key vote banks go away happy with this year's budget.
If the cheap dollar has mostly caused the global cash surplus, then the endgame is not a happy one.
Amazon's figures also point to a happy holiday season for Nintendo, Apple and global positioning system (GPS) specialist Garmin.
For all this happy news, will the region weather the next global dip better than before?
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The global equity markets are built to appreciate over time and lead to a happy ending.
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And measures can and should be taken to ensure that the future economic growth of the poor world, if that happy outcome occurs, does not unduly exacerbate the problem of global warming.
"The Bank of England will be far from happy with the October consumer price inflation data, " said Howard Archer, analyst at IHS Global Insight.
In case you didn't have the chance to venture over to our in-depth review of the global Samsung Galaxy Note II, it's definitely worth a look -- but we'll be happy to go over some of the smartphone's hardware here regardless.
All of which makes for a happy mix of old and new, helping Dubai sustain the links with its mercantile past while feeding a global appetite for the region's much-loved traditional fruit.
Those in the business of selling windmills are very happy with this arrangement ( see story by Naazneen Karmali), but in no time our fears of global warming have caused our economy to become littered with subsidies, credits, deductions, tax surcharges, earmarks and research boondoggles.
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