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Stiglitz says Covid-19 pandemic showed consequences of neoliberalism Stiglitz says Covid-19 pandemic showed consequences of neoliberalism Santiago, Chile, Jan 21 (Prensa Latina) Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prizewinner in Economics, lashed out at neoliberalism and assured that the Covid-19 pandemic is currently showing the consequences of 40 years of impositions by neaoliberalism. The prominent US economist gave a keynote lecture as part of the sessions of Future Congress 2021, Chiles major scientifi...

Later, again, there was a deal on the table to save the economy. this time congress voted yes and the markets reacted exactly the same way. >> weve got about ten minutes to go here before the closing bell and its a bit of a blood bath. dow down 257 points. >> maybe wall streets sending a signal to washington. >> yeah. >> today after congress voted to raise the countrys debt ceiling and thereby avoid catastrophic national default, the market fell off a cliff. the dow lost 265 points, its eighth c...

Thats from the speaker on monday. >> yes, and hes talking about future budgets as well which you cant talk about. you cant mandate congress, future congress in anything binding. so i think, look, republicans have a very winning message here. people want spending cuts and they definitely do not want the debt ceiling increased but you have to do it. it would be catastrophic if you didnt do it. although i would agree, democrats have a very potent point, too, you look at the polling. they want taxes...

So were still under control of the democrats. thats how theyve chosen to do it. we would all prefer to get this done and finish off and go on to the new congress in january. we are still hanging around bit by bit. >> greta: i dont hear the republicans raising enough hell on this the idea we have a four-day weekend. that this tax thing has waited 10 years. everyone keeps saying the democrats can set the agenda. theres not been a lot of noise out of the republican party they should have done it be...

That is the achievement, the achievement of a deal in washington that republicans in congress were patting themselves on the back about today. >> when you look at this final agreement that became here to the white house, i got 98% of what i wanted. im pretty happy. >> im pretty happy. im pretty happy. speaker john boehner, speaker of the house john boehner does, in fact, seem pretty happy. the markets are clearly not happy, looking at this deal that may have just been 1.8 million jobs out of the...

Was no. they voted against that emergency rescue plan, and as a result wall street looked like this. >> where do we go from here? >> they dont have enough. >> were going to go down -- ton of uncertainty. >> this has gone down now? >> what happened, steve? >> find out if its possible to change votes, because by my math, this can be bad. i dont think they can pass it now with the remaining no votes being 17. >> wall street believed congress would pass the bailout package, then a wild day before th...

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Washington that republicans in congress were patting themselves on the back about today. >> when you look at this final agreement that became here to the white house, i got 98% of what i wanted. im pretty happy. >> im pretty happy. im pretty happy. speaker john boehner, speaker of the house john boehner does, in fact, seem pretty happy. the markets are clearly not happy, looking at this deal that may have just been 1.8 million jobs out of the economy when were already in very bad shape is not fe...