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ECB-president Lagarde waarsku teen 'groot ramp' as VSA in gebreke bly op skuldverpligtinge
Daar is die afgelope tyd baie besprekings oor die Amerikaanse regering se skuldplafon en of die Kongres sal optree voordat dit in gebreke bly. In 'n onlangse onderhoud het Christine Lagarde, die president van die Europese Sentrale Bank (ECB), gesê sy is vol vertroue dat die VSA sy skuldverpligtinge kan handhaaf. Sy het egter gewaarsku dat indien die VSA sy skuld sou versuim, dit 'n "groot ramp" sou wees.
Lagarde vol vertroue in Amerikaanse skuldbestuur ondanks voorspellings van moontlike verstekkrisis vir die regering in Augustus of September
Although the United States of America is an economic superpower, it has accumulated more than $31 trillion in debt held by the government and intragovernmental holding entities. The debt has eksponensieel gegroei over the last 20 years, and there has been much talk in recent times about the government defaulting on its interest and principal payments to foreign investors, foreign governments, and other entities. At the beginning of the year, the U.S. secretary of the Treasury, Janet Yellen, explained how the Treasury would need to enact “extraordinary measures” to pay its debts. However, she also gewaarsku that the funds would be “exhausted before early June.”
Unless Congress changes its approach, the U.S. government may be unable to pay interest and principal to specific lenders by summer. Yellen’s extraordinary measures provided the U.S. with roughly $800 billion, and the government anticipates a substantial amount of funding from taxpayers, which is expected to last until June. Speaking with the hosts of CBS News’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday, Christine Lagarde, the president of the ECB, bespreek the debt issues in the United States and expressed her confidence in the U.S. managing its finances.
"Ek het enorme vertroue in die Verenigde State," het Lagarde gesê. "Ek kan eenvoudig nie glo dat hulle sou toelaat dat so 'n groot, groot ramp plaasvind met die Verenigde State wat sy skuld versuim nie. Dit is nie moontlik nie. Ek kan nie glo dat dit sou gebeur nie. As dit sou gebeur, sou dit 'n baie negatiewe impak hê nie net in hierdie land, waar vertroue uitgedaag sou word nie, maar ook regoor die wêreld,” het Lagarde bygevoeg. Die president van die ECB het voortgegaan:
Kom ons erken dit, dit is die grootste ekonomie. Dit is 'n groot leier in ekonomiese groei regoor die wêreld. Dit kan nie toelaat dat dit gebeur nie. Ek verstaan die politiek, ek was self in die politiek. Maar daar is 'n tyd wanneer die hoër belang van die nasie moet seëvier.
Lagarde’s remarks on CBS followed commentary from economist Paul Krugman, who said there was a possibility of the U.S. defaulting on its debt. He verklaar that he did not know when it would happen, but it would likely occur because of a Republican-controlled House of Representatives refusing to raise the debt ceiling. “Who will trust the currency of a nation that appears to have politically lost its mind?” Krugman asked in his most recent opinion editorial. “If that happens, the threat to the dollar’s reserve-currency status will be the least of our problems.”
Die president van die ECB het die kwessie van die mededinging tussen die VSA en China geopper, wat onlangs verskerp het. Lagarde het haar oortuiging uitgespreek dat gesonde mededinging voordelig is en modernisering kan meebring. "Daar is ongetwyfeld 'n mededinging tussen hierdie groot ekonomieë," het Lagarde gesê. “Die VSA is die eerste ekonomie ter wêreld. China ding duidelik mee en sit alle kragte in daardie kompetisie in. Ek dink mededinging is gesond. Dit moet innovasie stimuleer. Dit moet produktiwiteit stimuleer. Maar dit is onvermydelik dat hierdie twee groot ekonomieë mekaar in die gesig staar.”
Despite Lagarde’s optimism, there has been a lot of tension between China and the U.S. recently. Tensions between the two countries heightened when Nancy Pelosi, the American representative from California, Taiwan besoek het in August 2022. The head of the European Central Bank emphasized that the competition “should not be confrontational,” and emphasized that “conflict is not inevitable.” While Lagarde is confident in the United States government’s ability to manage its fiscal responsibilities, Politico reporters Jennifer Scholtes, Paula Friedrich, and Beatrice Jin was that “by all indications, the U.S. is most likely to approach the brink of default in August or September.”
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