You are talking about, sir. Lets hear from cheryl in florida, the independent line. Good morning. Caller good morning. Very glad to be here. I would like to ask the guests this morning if he thinks the United States of america is too dependant on chinas money . Go ahead. Its true that the largest external creditor for the government is china. If china had not been able and willing to lend a lot of money to the United States, who would have . Somehow the u. S. External deficits had to be financed . Its just so happened china had large surpluses and the credit to invest in the u. S. Treasuries so thats an uncomfortable situation where china is the largest creditor. How much debt does china hold now . Of the federal treasuries, its according to the latest treasury information that i have seen, about 1. 3 trillion worth of treasuries, but thats not the sum total. Chinese hold significant interests in freddie may and freddie mac, and and they hold significant amounts of Municipal Bonds and
You are talking about, sir. Lets hear from cheryl in florida, the independent line. Good morning. Caller good morning. Very glad to be here. I would like to ask the guests this morning if he thinks the United States of america is too dependant on chinas money . Go ahead. Its true that the largest external creditor for the government is china. If china had not been able and willing to lend a lot of money to the United States, who would have . Somehow the u. S. External deficits had to be financed . Its just so happened china had large surpluses and the credit to invest in the u. S. Treasuries so thats an uncomfortable situation where china is the largest creditor. How much debt does china hold now . Of the federal treasuries, its according to the latest treasury information that i have seen, about 1. 3 trillion worth of treasuries, but thats not the sum total. Chinese hold significant interests in freddie may and freddie mac, and and they hold significant amounts of Municipal Bonds and
There is a way things are going today in the United States. Were dissatisfied or very dissatisfied if you are asked the same question, how would you respond . We want to hear from you. If you are satisfied from with the way the country is going, tell us. If not, tell us why. 202 7488000 for democrats. 202 7488001 for republicans. And for independents, 202 7488002. 250 people so far post and on our facebook page. If you want to send an email, go to journal cspan. Org. Some of the respondents on the pole, asked about satisfaction with the way the nations today. Only 2 of respondents said they are very satisfied with the direction of the country. 26 said they were somewhat satisfied. Were somewhat dissatisfied, and 41 responded very dissatisfied. 1 ofitical party, republicans very satisfied as opposed to 3 of democrats. 61 of republicans said they were very dissatisfied and 15 of democrats registered. They asked independents as well, around 2 saying they were very satisfied and iraq 15 of
We are here in london. Im guy johnson. Im francine lacqua. Happy new year to everyone. What are Angela Merkels contingency plans for grace . That is a question that is dominating the currency markets this morning and is sending the euro lower. Driving the news is a report over the weekend that says merkel could look at a greek exit. Lets go to hans nichols with the very latest. What are we to believe . We basically have three different lines from the German Government officials in germany on the report. The first is that saturday night line. That was a nondenial and ill saying they dont comment on speculative reports. Then, last night, we had the economy minister and Junior Coalition partner. He would know about internal planning inside the finance ministry. He said there were no contingency plans. This morning, we have a member of Angela Merkels party, the Party Chairman essentially, saying he cant imagine there being contingency planning. What we dont have is a firm denial that the g
And second if youd like to learn more about the subject, we have an Online Reading Group for this book where we will read through this section together for one week and then we will discuss it in an internet form online and that might be the best way if you want to learn more about this stuff because you can read at the same place as a bunch of other people and discuss it with them online section by section. So if you want one now, go to a website at intelligence. Org and there is a link on the homepage where this will be. And if you are a researcher in Computer Science or logic, please see whether any of the problems that we are working on are interesting to you and get into contact with us as they are. We are always looking for people that want to talk about these mechanical problems or it for now i would like to introduce professor russell who received his doctorate from Stanford University in 1984. Im sorry, 1986. He has been a faculty member at berkeley ever since and he has one n