#MrMarket: The divided national polling on the Debt debate. Veronique deRugy, Mercatus Center
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🗓️ 26 May 2023
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#MrMarket: The divided national polling on the Debt debate. Veronique deRugy, Mercatus Center
https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/05/23/surprise-debt-conversation-brings-more-pointless-tax-the-rich-talk
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| 0:00.0 | Will interest rates change again? |
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| 0:20.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchler |
| 0:26.0 | The headlines in the Wall Street Journal, Biden, McCarthy, see progress but no deal on debt limit. |
| 0:33.0 | The subhead, the south, the house of representatives left for its memorial day weekend recess with no deal in place to raise the nation's debt ceiling. |
| 0:42.0 | As the White House and Republicans continue to wrangle over spending levels, wrangling going on. |
| 0:50.0 | I go to a CNN poll in the Washington Post most recently. |
| 0:55.0 | CNN, 60% of respondents say debt ceiling increase should come with spending cuts. |
| 1:01.0 | On the other hand, a Monmouth University poll, clean debt deal preferred by 2-1. |
| 1:07.0 | I stop there because everything's in a quandary here. |
| 1:13.0 | Memorial day weekend good for the house of representatives, but we do not have clarity about the debt ceiling and there are all kinds of doomed-day sayings on Wall Street and around the world. |
| 1:24.0 | For a default, I welcome Verneak to Reggie of the Mercatus Center, writing at creator's syndicate most recently about this. |
| 1:32.0 | Verneak a very good evening to you. The American people are confused. |
| 1:37.0 | They want a debt deal, but at the same time they want spending cuts. |
| 1:41.0 | As I understand, that is the dispute between the two parties. |
| 1:44.0 | Can this be resolved? Are we going to get to a limit and then make a deal or are we going to default? Good evening to you. |
| 1:51.0 | Good evening. I assume we're going to make a deal. They're going to make a deal. |
| 1:56.0 | I mean, this is, it seems to be the American way and I think people should get used to it because there's going to be more and more of this going forward. |
| 2:05.0 | These debt crisis are going to keep coming up and I think for a while they're going to be a result that the last minute, but there's a moment where at some point it may be, you know, it may not have such a happy ending. |
| 2:20.0 | Spending cuts. The resistance is in the White House. I understand because according to the Washington Post, spending cuts as identified by the Republican Party would damage or limit or in some way profoundly change. |
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