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Borrowers in the US commercial real estate market face a significant challenge as nearly $1.5 trillion of debt comes due for repayment by the end of 2025, leading to a couple of big questions: [...]

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen notified the country's lawmakers last week that Congress needs to decide whether or not to proceed with the increase of the $31.4 trillion national debt [...]

Raising an instrument and a standoff. republicans are saying we will not vote for a -- that didnt happen when donald trump was president. >> but i think youre the one thats speculating theres a standoff that will happen here. nobody has said that. house republicans will have clear negotiations with the white house about what are the spending reforms needed and what needs to happen. that is not a standoff. that is a negotiation. number two, before i got to congress in the last term, my position h...

Crushed by decades of debt, China is undergoing a radical transition under President Xi Jinping. The result could be economic and political chaos.

Risks of Chinas local debt grows as govt scales back COVID-19 stimulus ANI | Updated: May 02, 2021 12:27 IST Beijing [China], May 2 (ANI): As China has started scaling back the COVID-19 stimulus worth trillions of yuan launched last year, local government debt and corporate bond defaults are emerging as the prime financial risks for the communist government. Chinese authorities are currently on high alert for financial problems, particularly in some western...

Im not going to. >> one of the biggest entitlement programs has been obamacare. >> social security and medicare. >> social security is not the problem with our overspending problem. welfare and the big increases in the military spending. >> social security and medicare out for what? >> 35%, include all the entitlements, you are right. at some point you take on those programs. i want to see the private sector play a bigger role. medicare is a big problem. why in the world -- medicare for all. >> ...

Taxes go to 0. >> im not saying that. when trump came to office we had the highest business taxes in the world. my problem with the democrats in the democrat debate they keep talking how they are pro-worker but so antibusiness. you cant be antibusiness and pro-worker, you cant have jobs without employers. trump is unapologetically pro-american business, they want businesses to be more competitive and american businesses, a small corner grocery store or google, when they do better they hire more ...

Very close to the edge. they didnt have a lot of cushion to get through those hard times, and a lot of that was because the costs of housing, headcare, education, had been rising steeply. but wages for most people have not. so people were taking on debt to compensate. so basically, you know, fast forward a few years, you have the financial crisis. she has been watching this huge debt bubble expand. a lot of it ended up being in real estate. she saw exactly what was going to happen before the res...

Those statements in the past from the two, three, four, five years ago would show he was not a fan of quantitative easing. he was concerned that some of the actions of the central bank had blown a big debt bubble and there could be a nasty correction in the markets when that debt bubble began to be hit by financial banks and people started to pay attention to that. so when you look at the statements from the past, you can see he was a pretty good forecaster for what were seeing right now. the qu...

Its going to affect car loans and variable interest rate debt and mortgage rates. this is still a window for consumers to enjoy those very low mortgage rates. >> the central bankers came in as the fire brigade to put out the fire, hoping the policy makers and the politicians would build a new house and they didnt. were left with the same rickety old house with the fire brigade almost out of the water. >> its a whole lot stronger, the house. >> the fundamentals of the global economy really arent ...