... $330 billion debt, whether by extending repayment, encouraging creditors to take a loss, called taking a haircut, or canceling some of what's owed outright. The International Monetary Fund, one of Greece's many creditors, says that, without some form of debt restructuring, the Greek economy will remain in freefall ...
... we built the state water project. JOHN LARSON: At the urging of the Governor, Jerry Brown, California voters last year agreed they had to be better prepared for a drought, so they passed a seven-and-a half-billion-dollar bond for building water storage facilities and water recycling projects ...
... The size of a hockey puck? Tennis ball? Or softball? What’s your biggest motivation to lose weight? Family? Health? An upcoming event? To look better? How active are you? What activities do you do? What’s the biggest obstacle to you losing weight right now? What health topics interest ...
... circles Afghanistan, this road was built by international donors, including the U.S. and the World Bank, with a price tag of more than $3 billion. It's also carried a higher cost. Since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001, hundreds of soldiers and civilians were killed along this ...
... But because of the drought, allocations have been slashed -- in Gleason’s water district, to zero: no surface water from the north at all, for the second year in a row. But those are the rules, says Antonio Rossmann, upon which California’s water system was built. ANTONIO ROSSMANN: in ...
... JUDY WOODRUFF: Next: the changing model of the music business, and how it's impacting the work itself. The other night, Hari Sreenivasan looked at what streaming has done to artists and the industry financially. Tonight, he's back with a second report, this on how artists, companies and ...
Health care in America will never improve if we don't change the conversation about what's wrong, argues Mercatus Center's Robert Graboyes. Politicians on both sides of the aisle, he says, fight about coverage instead of opening up the channels of innovation that have allowed other sectors, like information technology, to make significant progress in the...
Uber, the popular ride-sharing mobile phone app, has developed a reputation for ruthlessness. The company's latest woes were generated by an executive who talked about hiring operatives to dig up dirt on reporters who criticize the company. Economics correspondent Paul Solman looks at some of Uber’s controversial practices and Gwen Ifill learns more from Jan...
Worries about Ebola, Europe and the U.S. economy drove another dive on Wall Street. On the same day, the Obama administration announced the national deficit has declined to its lowest level since 2007. Gwen Ifill talks to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Budget Director Shaun Donovan about signs of a stabilizing economy, as well as...
In our news wrap Tuesday, a car bomb exploded near the U.S. embassy in Kabul, wounding nearly 20 soldiers and civilians and killing three NATO troops, including reportedly two Americans. Also, U.S. airstrikes hit Islamic State targets outside Baghdad as part of its expanded campaign.
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