companies. what jeff said is correct. there say lot going on here. there is a lot of holes in the sanctions enforcement around the world but it will be very hard to keep the joint comprehensive plan of action in place and i agree there are internal problems in iran. zwroust day they released rules on currency exchanges, trying to stop the fall of the real iranian currency. i think the speech tonight calls for resistance. and really pretty nationalistic speech as was just suggested mr. mr. kirkpatrick. really rallying the country together against the united states. so not good. put this in context. the big picture of the region. do you see a strategy on the part of the trump administration vis-a-vis the middle east? we talked about the middle east peace plan. you have the iran piece of the puzzle. but then you also have the gulf, the persian arab gulf countries as well. put that in context for what is
that the finance ministry the country s business community considered there a safe pair of hands when he was last imposed on the jacob zuma and zuma sacked him the south african rand collapsed of foreign currency currency exchanges as appointment has already been welcomed by business representatives present rather poza has also named david president another former finance minister pravin gordhan is the head big public enterprise department. i ll turn this to joins us from johannesburg welcome to day w i what do people expect of the new older finance minister. there is excitement here from a lot of people as you have thought it s a day when in there was the minister of finance the markets were the trusted investors just a team in when. or when because the markets in
above 10 grand. no clear explanation for that massive sell-off, but coin based quote one of the leading u.s. crypto currency exchanges says they are creating it was going down for two hours. jon: a white christmas for americans, and savannah s fourth largest theory , buried under snow, . your many officials have a state of emergency, they re asking drivers to please stay off the roads, more snow could fall there till tomorrow peers between the united states announcing sanctions against two senior north korean officials involved in the deponent of weapons of mass destruction. north koreans envoy at the u.n., once washington to back up the claim that the north woods behind the wannacry ran somewhere attack, calling the allegations baseless obligation causing tension.
down branches at an accelerated rate and offering more services such as small loans, check cash and currency exchanges will complement the banking industry. it writes the average underserved household spend $2,012 each year for interests and fees for financial services. the postal service could make $9 billion a year with these additional services. their revenue dropped $5 billion last year alone. gregg: what are critics saying? reporter: some in the business industry say this is not the post office s turf and they should not use taxpayer dollars to start this venture. you can do damage when the
the american taxpayers, and i m taking the last word on that. thank you. and the federal government face ago money problem, turns out the federal government is going to run out of money sooner he than we thought. mid february. what about our credit rating? that s just starters. and eric hill joins us, nice to see you. we ve seen the debt the end of december, now what. timothy geithner is taking extraordinary measures to prevent the u.s. from defaulting on obligations such as social security benefits and tax refunds and he has about until mid february, experts estimate or about march 1st in order to prevent the default. greta: are we talking about extraordinary methods basically trying to find cash under every rock to pay our bills. extraordinary methods sounds so professional and so nice, he s scraping every cent he can find. a couple of major places he can look, exchange stabilization fund normally used for foreign currency