hello everybody. a very warm welcome to talking business weekly. let s take a look at what is on the show. can we really afford to get old? ageing populations mean a rise in pensions and health care costs but, with government struggling for cash, who is going to pay? it is the problem at the heart of this year s protests with other countries facing similar challenges. well living standards need to step can change keep us comfortable in our senior years? i am going to discuss all of this with these two. a pensions expert who says we are sitting on a global pensions crisis time bomb that needs to raise retirement ages and from this leading economist who will explain why an ageing population isn t good news for governments trying to balance the books. plus, with the cost of living soaring around the world, global debt has set a record. $300 trillion. so we will hear from the boss of europe s leading debt collection agency about how it balances the need to recover cash for its cl
prosecutors will be pouring over videos and interviewing witnesses this weekend trying to decide whether to charge the 24-year-old former marine who held jordan neely in a fatal choke hold on the subway. tonight we have the first statement from that 24-year-old. plus, donald trump has until 5:00 p.m. on sunday to tell a judge whether he wants to take a stand in the e. jean carroll rape and defamation case, but the jury has already heard from him in a newly released video deposition. he claimed carroll was not his type but then mistook her photo for his second wife marla maples. i don t even know who the woman let s see, i don t know who it s marla. you re saying marla s in this photo? that s marla, yeah. it s my wife. which one are you pointing to? here. the person you just pointed to was e. jean carroll. and the great macaroni mystery. who dumped hundreds of pounds of pasta in the woods in a new jersey town? we re going to ask the mayor tonight. okay, but
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also focusing on the cost of particularly medical care. medical care is a big part of taking care of our older citizens and anything that can be done to address the cost of medical care and so that dan would be very helpful in addressing these fiscal problems that we have. what fiscal problems that we have. what ou think fiscal problems that we have. what you think the fiscal problems that we have. what you think the solutions fiscal problems that we have. what you think the solutions are to make sure that ageing populations don t bankrupt governments? weill. sure that ageing populations don t bankrupt governments? bankrupt governments? well, the solutions are bankrupt governments? well, the solutions are a bankrupt governments? well, the solutions are a 20. i bankrupt governments? well, the solutions are a 20. i don t - bankrupt governments? well, the solutions are a 20. i don t think i solutions are a 20. i don t think there is a smoking gun, do this and we solve our probl
record inflation that we know is harming people on main street, if you re dealing with economic uncertainty on main street, i don t think it s unreasonable after we printed $6 trillion to deal with a once in a generational pandemic, after we had an omny bus spending package you say perhaps we should consider having a conversation about tightening the belt. i don t think we re going to default. i think if you talked to the it 17 republicans that the president has labeled as extremist for trying to cancel everything from meal on wheels to the price is right on twitter, that, yes, those people recognize we can t default on the debt. but at the end of the day we should be having a conversation about responsible spending, and i don t think that s extremism. i think it s extreme to say that anyone so i agree with you. we have long-term fiscal problems, and i think i maybe agree with you that they are largely driven by the structure of our entitlement programs and our demographic trends.