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International equity benchmarks marks a major milestone in its quest to grow and diversity for its economy the criteria saudi arabia mass included tightening corporate governance and easing restrictions on foreign stock ownership. and its expected to pay off analysts believe inclusion on the index could attract well over thirty billion dollars into the country over the next two years. germany has cut its debt load thanks to a strong economy and a decline in the deaths resulting from bank bailout...

At big companies will find out. this year, more than 50 emergency or companies re -- 50 major companies reveal how much the ceo makes. this is a policy of dodd-frank. advocates say it is about time. how did companies stack up? humanas ceo makes 344 times the median worker. toys r us may shut all of the stores this week. the toy story declie declined t comment on it. sources say it could not balance the huge debt load and paying to upgrade stores and digital offering. it is terrible news for to...

Midterm election year. >> it is unbelievable to me, we have to get the spending under control and i think everyone recognizes that. to make a fundamental decision like this is causing me great concern to support increasing the debt load on our grandkids and kids that is unsustainable and ultimately, it will threaten our national security because we wont have the money to take care of our military and our non-defense programs because it will be spending it all on debt payments as you see interest...

75 billion dollars right now -- >> laura: 72. >> anthony: i dont see statehood. i dont see congress or senate ever, ever taking on a 72 billion dollar debt load. >> laura: exactly. >> anthony: especially for a lot of people who speak spanish. whats the way out of this? >> hermes: oh my god. [ laughter ] >> anthony: what about tourism? >> hermes: its an industry of services to service the wealthy. and at the same time you take 450 million out of the university for example so youre going to have l...

This makes the situation much worse, not better. even though they started by saying it will be revenue neutral. and it will grow the economy, i assume. but i think the problem is it will probably be a short-term boost that then the growth slows dramatically. because of bigger factors. a slower labor force growth but also the higher debt load. then the big question mark really is how much of this is going to be translated to workers, higher wages, and job creation. and if this is about making new...

>> anthony: you dont really have much voice in your own destiny. >> laura: exactly you can only go to war. thats the only thing you can do with rights. >> anthony: puerto rico owes 75 billion dollars right now -- >> laura: 72. >> anthony: i dont see statehood. i dont see congress or senate ever, ever taking on a 72 billion dollar debt load. >> laura: exactly. >> anthony: especially for a lot of people who speak spanish. whats the way out of this? >> hermes: oh my god. [ laughter ] >> anthony: wh...

Paying off student at. >> the horse left already on this one and college costs. and the correlation is out of control and the fact that college costs are crazy and colleges have to be responsible, graduate still living with mom and dad, living in the basement, not getting jobs, colleges have to be responsible for helping these kids get jobs. >> the new year, covering this for so many years we kept thinking almost 1 trillion, we havent seen taxpayer led bailout, not that we want to. >> looking at...

>> laura: not anything -- >> anthony: you dont really have much voice in your own destiny. >> laura: exactly you can only go to war. thats the only thing you can do with rights. >> anthony: puerto rico owes 75 billion dollars right now -- >> laura: 72. >> anthony: i dont see statehood. i dont see congress or senate ever, ever taking on a 72 billion dollar debt load. >> laura: exactly. >> anthony: especially for a lot of people who speak spanish. whats the way out of this? >> hermes: oh my god. [...

States. >> its kind of a half acid citizenship. cant vote for president. >> nor congress. >> or congress. you dont have really much voice in your own destiny. >> exactly. you can only go to war. thats the only thing that you can do with rights. >> right. but puerto rico owes, what, $75 billion right now? >> 72, yeah. >> 72. i dont see statehood -- i dont see congress ever taking on a $72 billion debt load. >> exactly. >> especially for a loft people who speak spanish. whats the way out of this? ...

It sounds good to people on the island. will puerto rico will need capital to rebuild and need access to the private markets and it will not do that if it defaults and wipes away all of the debt. plus, keep in mind, about 75% of that debt is held by moms and pops on the mainland who are, who own puerto rican debt through mutual funds and theyre pensioners. it is not wall street. >> okay. fair enough. the, the debt load though is severe. going to be haircuts here for some of these lenders? >> oh,...