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Wall street journal. i know i risk saying this, but its a big concern. the federal reserve over all of these years has been keeping rates low by buying treasury notes and bonds. they have to undo that now. why is that a worry? >> investors have wondered how theyre going to address it, what the approach will be. the question is will this pause rate hikes. one fed governor suggested i might. could halt interest rate rises for the short term. generallied is i think theres a lot of uncertainty of ho...

Was his fathers wealth. >> a valid hit opinion. you cant control every member of your family but if that maybe of the family has direct contact as an adviser the president that unacceptable. >> where do you die the line? the obamas bucked the train -- dididnt use blind trust but they didnt have anything near the amount of money in the individual outside lays, particularly donald trump us but that had bank accounts and treasury notes and treasuries were pristine investments for a time and a perio...

Its caused. >> wayne, we do not know if hes being paid for this. and i also dont mean to be insensitive in the question, but i have to ask, is there any -- if he is getting paid a lot of money for this speech, and hes not backing down in the face of criticism, even from friends, is there any reason to believe that he really, really needs the money. that theyre offering him so much money that he cant afford to turn it down. is there any reason to believe that hes broke? >> there isnt, rachel. in ...

Is there any reason to believe that hes broke? >> there isnt, rachel. in fact, if we rolook at his finances, when he went to the white house, much of his stuff is in bonds. much of his stuff is in very safe treasury notes and so forth. and theres no reason to think that he doesnt have a lot of money or certainly is not comfortable. but hes the son of a president who went out and made money. bill clinton made money. and i can remember that george bush, remember in the final weeks and months of hi...

>> i personally through, october 17th is not the big one, believe it or not. im more worried about november 15th, when a massive amount of treasury notes, bills, bonds come due. and if we havent settled things, how does the government decide who or who doesnt get paid? what it really means is now when people are buying a treasury, theyre going to have to get a higher interest rate. people who live here, i may not give you half a percentage point, you may not pay it back. im not giving you money ...

>> talk me through the really big potential deadlines and what it means going forward for the american people. >> i personally through, october 17th is not the big one, believe it or not. im more worried about november 15th, when a massive amount of treasury notes, bills, bonds come due. and if we havent settled things, how does the government decide who or who doesnt get paid? what it really means is now when people are buying a treasury, theyre going to have to get a higher interest rate. peop...

They had all the time in the world knowing it was coming up. why do they always have to wait until the last minute? this is political shenanigans, has nothing to do with money and it is affecting those who really cant afford to have it affect them. >> talk me through the really big potential deadlines and what it means going forward for the american people. >> i personally through, october 17th is not the big one, believe it or not. im more worried about november 15th, when a massive amount of t...

On your show. neil: now many people are saying we still need more mortgage rework programs. we still need more sort of housing backstops, and obviously what the federal reserve just did, buying treasury notes, they were getting concerned whether housing would tick up. >> theyre concerned the economy is no good and probably right in that because if you look at real unemployment ex-youre at 18%. youre not at 7.3. youre at 18 and could be higher. so, theyre right about that. the economy is actually...

The cbo earlier this year of how higher interest rates would effect deficits in the next ten years. if ten year treasury notes stay at the baseline average of 5.2%, a one year payment on just the interest on the national debt will rise from 243 billion in 2014 to a one year payment of $857 billion by 2023. now, if interest rates were to stick to their averages in the 1990s, when rates on ten year treasury notes averaged 6.7%, the additional costs would be a little over $1 trillion in 2023. but t...

Center has issued a particularly dangerous situation tornado watch for most of oklahoma. that means a major tornado outbreak could happen very soon. now its time for the money lead. if debby downer were giving a speech to this years class of college graduates it would probably go something like this. congratulations graduates. not only have you accumulated decades worth of student loan debt but there is a good chance your degree will not do anything to help you find a job to pay it off. thats a ...