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Phones camera. A consumer alert ahead of the Holiday Shopping season. How scammers are draining the money from gift cards without you noticing. Plus, megastars hitting the court at halftime. All you have to do is wait a second for a wild dance party. The clock is ticking good wednesday morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. We begin with the most anticipated witness of the impeachment investigation taking the hot seat this morning. The u. S. Ambassador to the European Union who appeared to have instant access to President Trump is set to testify today. Ambassador Gordon Sondland was a key player at the center of the president s dealings with ukraine, which involved withholding military aid. His testimony will follow four other officials who made it clear that the president s phone call to ukraine was far less than perfect. Abcs Megan Tevrizian begins our coverage from capitol hill. Megan, good morning. Reporter good morning, kenneth and janai. Republican megadonor turned ambassad
Now those. Cars are. Max guys and this is the guys report occasionally need to reset everything needs to be reset or waiting for a global reset and even in financial reset we just need to. Reset. Well lets reset this episode of kaiser report. Started again now were actually going to start here again this is a new york city where a kaiser reports we have been here for a few days and i do i do want to say that despite many of the headlines talking about oh possibly on the edge of a recession i see this over and over on twitter many headlines from the Financial News from all sorts of commentators saying that were on the verge of a recession and certainly you could say that perhaps germany and europe might be but if youre Walking Around manhattan and in times square area or bryant park what youll notice is that there is a huge amount of shopping here and a lot of i mean its way more than last year for example it seems like more boom time right now and consumers spending more money that the
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Been kind of a reset that has happened since the financial crisis of 2008 to 20091 of the things we covered at that time extensively was the greek financial crisis because here we saw the troika enter and impose mass austerity measures and they still by the way have austerity measures out until the i can see that they have to run a primary surplus for example of 3 percent of g. D. P. Which is on heard of in almost all nations theyre maintaining that at the moment but heres a story that is remarkable in light of the fact that consumers are shopping like crazy racking up debt like crazy like they actually have jobs that are paying them great incomes heres the same post financial crash from greece one of the most ridiculous charts and financial history greece got paid by investors for issuing debt they sold 3 month debt at record low minus. 0. 02 percent and heres your chart of the 3 month yields on greek debt its now negative max all right well loans kind of imply that somewhere in the m