#MrMarket: The US Debt and its discontents. Veronique deRugy, Mercatus Center
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#MrMarket: The US Debt and its discontents. Veronique deRugy, Mercatus Center
https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/05/23/why-the-debt-ceiling-continues-to-matter
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| 0:40.4 | Janet Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, says US |
| 0:45.2 | default would trigger a global economic downturn. |
| 0:49.8 | Certainly, a stark warning, so I welcome Verenick to Rijie of the Mercatus Center, writing |
| 0:55.3 | most recently a creator's syndicate about the debt ceiling debate, which is how it's |
| 1:00.8 | presented itself these last days, philosophies matching each other at a recent meeting at |
| 1:07.0 | the White House. |
| 1:08.0 | Verenick, a very good evening to you, catastrophe, I see that word all the time, economic and |
| 1:13.9 | financial catastrophe. |
| 1:15.3 | I don't want to entertain what happens, I want to understand what the debt represents, |
| 1:20.9 | I think it's over $31 trillion. |
| 1:24.1 | That debt, who pays for that debt? |
| 1:26.3 | How do we go from year to year, owing that much money? |
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