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Is the United States about to run out of money? Why Sky is a bad investment for the Murdox? And delving into the world of water. These are the issues we'll be tackling later in this week's views room, a weekly conversation among Breaking Views columnists about the ups and downs of the world of finance. I'm Jennifer Sabah, and joining me here is my co-host, Anthony Curry. Hello, Anthony. Hi, Jen. Rupert Murdoch's bid to buy the

rest of Sky he does an already own looks even less rational than when he tried to do this the first time in 2010.

On the line, we have Liam Proud, our Breaking Views columnist from London. Liam, welcome to the program. Hi, both. Thanks

having me. Okay, Liam, you know, as we said earlier, this deal happened in December. It's still in the

news. What's the most recent development going on right now with Sky and Fox? Sure. So the state of the

deal at the moment is that it's sort of bogged down in the regulatory

process. But the reason I'm looking at it at the moment is that one of Sky's kind of high-profile

shareholders is this infamous fund manager in the UK called Chris Bin O'Day, who's basically

been saying that he doesn't think the deal is worth it for Sky, or it risks not

being worth it for Sky shareholders if it drags on for much longer.

I mean, what he said is that it looks like Fox is getting it for a cheap price, and the

offers starting to look a bit mean.

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