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Financial journalist and author Roger Lowenstein predicts the cause of the next widespread economic crunch as he excerpts his new book, "While America Aged: How Pension Debts Ruined General Motors, Stopped the NYC Subways, Bankrupted San Diego, and Loom as the Next Financial Crisis." Series: Revelle Forum at the Neurosciences Institute [6/2008] [Public Affairs] [Business] [Show ID: 14382]
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It is often said that the Gulf region is immune to the global financial crisis.
This perception may be about to change as Dubai's boom starts to fizzle out.
With debts of up to $80m, Dubai could be in need of some urgent financial help.
Al Jazeera's Todd Baer reports.
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Aljazeera re-aired Max's 2007 prediction of a collapse of the Icelandic economy.
While the program aired in August 2007, it was filmed in April 2007.
Watch for the scene in the Blue Lagoon in which Max predicts a global Depression to be caused when all these debts driven by low interest rates burst.
