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The last straw some plastic items could be on the way out in the e. U. Including drinking straws as the European Parliament votes to ban certain single use disposable products. The u. S. Fed is normally seen as the caretaker of the u. S. Economy but now it seems to have made an enemy in a high place the white house. Also ahead underinvestment in a bad harvest take their toll on cubas sugar industry the island nation turns to imports for the first time. Im Stephen Beard limber len welcome plastic may be cheap for producers but its become an environmental menace now the e. U. Parliament has voted through a ban on a range of single use Plastic Products environmentalist say it cant come soon enough the mountain of waste on land and waterways and seas continues to grow the e. U. Currently recycles only a quarter of the twenty five Million Tonnes of Plastic Waste it produces annually now european lawmakers say urgent action is needed to tackle the problem. You need
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a speech and before the fed issued its report president trump yet again attacked the fed and its policy why does he keep doing that. well again and again the president is saying that the policy of the federal reserve is the biggest threat to the economy not cherubs not china but the federal reserve well it is true to a certain degree that if you see higher interest rates especially was those high debt levels that we are having if you have higher rates it will become more expensive for to pay for this debt that could be. could not stop but slow down the u.s. economy is what the president is not entirely wrong on that but the big question is why the federal reserve is increasing interest rates and one of the main reasons are the text cuts that we ve seen here in the united states that does lead to or certain overheating of the u.s. economy that that s you need to inflation tendencies and that s the reason why the
claims that the federal reserve was those interest rate increases is the guilty party here for the heavy selling pressure on wall street so yes does the president maybe have a point there that. that is the fed wellington certainly when. well certainly i mean when interest rates are increasing then it can be a damper on the economy and actually that is also one reason why the fed increases interest rates to prevent an overheating of the economy or to prevent inflation getting out of target the so in that respect the president is not entirely false but the big question is not that the federal reserve is increasing interest rates where why and one big reason are the huge tax cuts from u.s. president donald trump that just would lead to inflation tendencies i m here in the
maybe have a point there that. that is the fed wellington s that when. well certainly i mean when interest rates are increasing then it can be a damper on the economy and actually that is also one reason why the fed increases interest rates to prevent an overheating of the economy or to prevent inflation getting out of target so the so in that respect the president is not entirely false but the big question is not that the federal reserve is increasing interest rates where why and one big reason are the huge tax cuts from the u.s. president donald trump just need to inflation tendencies i m here in the united states so he s not entirely wrong but actually he s the one who sort of put the federal reserve under pressure to keep interest rates rising so fears of an