I'm Bill Warriors. It's good to have your ear.

This week on Warriors' Company, I'll talk with Martin Wolf of the Financial Times about America's political breakdown.

The government of the United States is distracted.

Obviously, if it's going to now have a rolling every couple of months crisis and a rolling discussion

of these issues, it can't do any of the other things that the world would like the US to do.

If economics goes very, very badly wrong, you risk political extremism.

And then if the politics go really badly wrong, you can end anywhere. And with Sherry Turkle of MIT on why we expect more from technology and less from each other.

I share, therefore I am, really has become normal.

I want to have a feeling.

I need to send a text.

Thanks for joining us. My guest, Martin Wolf, says the U.S. debt ceiling is the legislative equivalent of a nuclear

bomb that America has aimed at itself.

And because Congress refused to permanently diffuse it this week, the threat remains and

could still detonate early next year.

Take this flashing red alert seriously because it comes from a man who's been called

the premier financial and economics writer in the world.

Martin Wolf is the chief economics commentator for the influential financial

times, and he's read by just about anyone who is someone in the stratosphere of high finance.

But he plays no favorites and confronts the private sector with his failures of principle and mission

just as quickly as he does government. His opinions are known to make the mighty listen and sometimes tremble.

Martin Wolf, welcome.

Thank you very much.

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