Mariel Segarra
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207 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 5d ago
Mariel Segarra’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But yes, even doves are becoming hawks.
You know who hasn't changed his mind?
Ten Rogoff.
His position is basically it was bad then, it's worse now.
And interest rates are really important for determining how bad you think it is.
Yeah, there's some vindication here for him.
Yeah, and to be clear, the gamble is that a higher debt makes it harder to respond fast enough to big shock to prevent a crisis.
Something Ken thinks is pretty likely.
And the debt to GDP ratio has crossed a somewhat arbitrary but scary line.
A hundred percent.
We asked him how much that matters.
And Ken's answer to that question is basically look at the interest rates.
He says rising debt is like your cholesterol going up.
High cholesterol probably won't kill you immediately, but it raises the risk of a heart attack.
Which
Leads us back to the question that started this whole saga.
Have we now finally racked up too much debt?
Neither Ken nor Karen can draw a sharp line of what is too much.
But they agree that the solution is cutting spending, raising taxes, or both.
And that seems pretty much like a non starter.
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