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With ricing oil prices, a weakening dollar and a forecast of slow economic growth, we look at what's in store for the U.S. economy and what the Fed can do about it.
Neil Irwin, National Economy and Federal Reserve reporter for the Washington Post
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Congressional Budget Office director (2003-05) and chief economist in President George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers (2001-02)
David Malpass, Chief economist at Bear Stearns, New York City
The award-winning adventure writer describes his voyage to the Antarctic with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society to stop an illegal Japanese whaling fleet.
Peter Heller, a contributing editor at "Outside" magazine and "National Geographic Adventure," and the author of "Hell or High Water."