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Week of December 11, 2006

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10:00Trade deficits, value of the dollar and the global economy

The dollar, the world's predominant currency, has dropped in value by about 18% over the last five years. We'll talk about what a continuing slide could mean for American consumers, U.S. trade deficits, and the global economy.

Guests

Fred Bergsten, director of the Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics

Albert Keidel, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former deputy director for the Office of East Asian Nations at the U.S. Department of the Treasury in the Bush administration

James Paulsen, chief investment officer, Wells Capital Management

11:00Adriana Trigiani: "Home to Big Stone Gap" (Random House)

The best-selling author returns with the latest installment in her series of novels featuring Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney and her tight circle of friends in the small, Blue Ridge Mountain town of Big Stone Gap, Virginia.

Guests

Adriana Trigiani, award-wining playwright, television writer, documentary filmmaker, and author of the bestselling Big Stone Gap trilogy, "Lucia, Lucia" and "The Queen of the Big Time," and "Rococo," and co-author of "Cooking With My Sisters."

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