discuss it with the panel. welcoming back juan, nina and charles. nina, i d like to start with you. there is a lot of talk about what the u.s. should or shouldn t be doing and the policy being involved or not in egypt. the key number is $1.3 billion in aid. military aid we are still sending to egypt with no strings attached. the big problem in egypt is that the military controls the economy. they control 80% of manufacturerring for example. you could the imf is not giving any money as they did with turkey in the early 90s force them to privatize industry and it pushed the military to side. now have a situation in egypt where the military has its fingers in everything. saudi arabia has given $4 billion in a grant no, strings attached or nothing. and saudi arabia has a vested interest in the staus quo there. we are not using our, any
discuss it with the panel. welcoming back juan, nina and charles. nina, i d like to start with you. there is a lot of talk about what the u.s. should or shouldn t be doing and the policy being involved or not in egypt. the key number is $1.3 billion in aid. military aid we are still sending to egypt with no strings attached. the big problem in egypt is that the military controls the economy. they control 80% of manufacturerring for example. you could the imf is not giving any money as they did with turkey in the early 90s force them to privatize industry and it pushed the military to side. now have a situation in egypt where the military has its fingers in everything. saudi arabia has given $4 billion in a grant no, strings attached or nothing. and saudi arabia has a vested interest in the staus quo there. we are not using our, any
and stock markets react as well. european stocks closing down on grave concerns on what s happening on the euro zone and whether italy will be able to pay its bills. and stresses that we re seeing in the italian bond market. when you talk about stocks, stocks are much smaller than the overall bond market. the bond market is where governments, companies go to borrow money to keep going. the cost to borrow for governments, governments in trouble, has been rising. you have that above 7% now. 7.3% for italy to borrow money. that s even with the european central bank buying italian bonds and with europe doing things to stabilize things. 7% is seen as a dangerous signal, fredricka. when you ve seen rates climb that high before, it s triggered a bailout. how can you bail out italy? it s the third largest bond market and economy in europe. look at greece, for example, 27% the interest rates on greece bonds. greece can barely can t borrow money, quite frankly, anymore, because of it
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of the stimulus money flowing into oregon millions of dollars flowing in to get the economy up and running again. turns out a little bit of a problem. according to a labor department inspector general report released this week we know that about 7 million dollars of stimulus funds flowed out to the pacific northwest in an effort to hire jobs or hire workers. turns out, liao being at that number. only 254 foreign workers were hired, zero americans got any of that. ainsley: we re told that these americans in that area didn t know that these jobs were available. dave: right. they did, they say, contact 146 u.s. workers about these jobs, but again, you can t ignore the fact our taxpayer dollars hired 254 foreign workers and zero americans, and this speaks to a larger narrative we ve seen going on after this stimulus and even before, really, about no strings attached. millions of american taxpayer dollars going out the door, with zero strings attached. we saw it with the bailout and