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House press secretary, not the president, about how the congress needs to deal with this issue. listen. >> were not going to work our way around this or negotiate on this. this is the basic -- the basic duties of congress is to deal with this issue. lets not forget in the last administration they, democrats and republicans, were able to deal with the debt limit three times, three times. so this is something that needs to be done, that should be done, and we call on congress to act. >> the white ...

President Joe Biden’s loan plan doesn’t reform a cruel and senseless system. This will.

Its partly down to strong demand for the us currency, as interest rates rise aggressively. but it also reflects growing concerns about the uk economy, a looming recession, weaker trade post—brexit, and rising government borrowing at greater costs of repayment. as we were just talking about they are. sunaina sinha haldea is global head of private capital at the investment bank raymond james. thank you so much forjoining me. close to 24% of uk government debt issued is inflation—linked. this m...

Island weather its deepest economic crisis. earlier i spoke to shanta devarajan, a professor at georgetown university. hes former acting chief economist at the world bank, now an advisor liaising between international financial institutions and the sri lankan government. he gave me his take on the situation: its extremely serious, in economic terms. and that is why the people are so angry — because the reason why sri lanka has no foreign exchange at the moment is because of the misguided polic...

Bleeding the country dry. now thats why theyre angry with rajapaksa and stormed the presidents palace, and so on. at the point is even when rajapaksa leaves, the debt problem and macro economic crisis will remain. so we have to be solving that problem, and thats what weve been working on for the last six months — working with the imf and various stakeholders in sri lanka to devise a reform programme, and economic reform programme that will try to reverse some of these policies that got us into...

Between international financial institutions and the sri lankan government. he gave me his take on the situation. its extremely serious, in economic terms. and that is why the people are so angry — because the reason why sri lanka has no foreign exchange at the moment is because of the misguided policies of the rajapaksa administration. for two years, theyve actually been bleeding this country dry. now, thats why theyre angry with rajapaksa and stormed the presidents palace, and so on. but the...

The debt crisis itself is a topic of extensive conversation this week, both at the IMF, at the World Bank, and among the G-20, and other shareholder groups that are forming this week, World Bank President David Malpass told reporters.

From? at the moment we are using an interesting trek in germany, _ from? at the moment we are using an interesting trek in germany, we - from? at the moment we are using an interesting trek in germany, we have l interesting trek in germany, we have witnessed that the chancellor announced something he would call a special budget or a side budget to the normal budget and shifting those 100 billion euros into that side budget sounds lovely, because on the one hand it keeps the tradition of a normal...

Paul: jillian, who benefits for the most part? who are the borrowers and how much longer will this loss last, how shall cost taxpayers? >> by august estimate rep to what her $20 billion thats a significant amount on taxpayers. the beneficiaries are people who have advanced degrees. many of the peoples of bachelors comic graduate degrees, doctor degrees that are marketable in the job market and getting high paying jobs. it is a payout from taxpayers who maybe have a high school education working ...

Congressman what you think the prospects are? democrats like to see trim down "build back better" what do you think? >> certainly we all understand talk about cutting back you talk about cutting back three and half trillion to 1.75 trillion actually all they did is they cut the length of the program. the congressional budget office its still going to cost $5 trillion is still going to add $3 trillion toward that bird just saying youre going to cut back the length of the programs is not going to ...