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piling on credit cards at, at the fastest rate recorded and data going back 22 years. card balance is rose to $856000000000.00 in the final quarter of 2021. according to a new report from the federal reserve bank of new york, and total americans were holding $15.00 trillion dollars in debt at the end of last year, as surge and new mortgages. thanks to the booming housing market and auto loans were also major factors in the increase now for more or less, let's bring an yes quarter are respondent in new york? yes, this is a lot of debt. can these households actually afford to pay it back? well, it's clearly a challenge should chelsea, especially as we're talking about the year when slowly, but to shortly we will see an increase sermon interest rate so that that will actually become a more expensive for consumers. so if you look at total household debt, by example,

if all the way debt increase a trillion dollars for the full year of 2021. so that is a lot of money, but when it comes to credit card debt, we're still not edge record to a levels. and the american way is you make that to pay for a debt. but clearly it is a challenge, especially in the environment of a raising interest rates and stuff like that. pressures on this households. one of the factors and, and the rising levels of debt is a lot of consumption in the us. we also saw data indicating that the trade deficit in the u. s. rose to a record high, very politically sensitive issue in the u. s. is there risk to the economy? there is chelsea and it is pretty mind blowing. number again, if you look at the full year of 2021, we actually saw the trade budget blow up or, or expand by about to 27 percent. i mean that is

a huge increase from one year to another. and if you import more and more, and you don't export to much more, usually, that is or can be a direct on economic growth in the united states. i mean, clearly the good message is obviously the american or the u. s. economy is doing better than other call me around the globe. so that's why imports are increasing and exports not so much, but in the longer run. and if you run huge deaf, it said usually that is a direct on economic growth of a country like the united states and the ends. i just want to ask you briefly. there is a big story breaking out of the u. s. a record seizure of crypto currencies that were sold in and a half. what more can you tell us about this year when it's a new york couple and obviously they sort of, if i got the right mass, about 3 and a half, a 1000000000 worth of crypto current feed them. and now investigators caught the

couple, i would say cash is still king, at least when it comes to cyber criminals, because the couple tried to, to convert those crypto currency into real currency into us. and that obviously wasn't that easy and that's why investigators were able to capture them and score to new york. thank you so much now to some of the other global vis and stories making news. pelettano is replacing it c, e o. and cutting 2800 jobs. the maker of interactive exercise bike faces sagging sales, co founder john foley has led the company for nearly a decade. he will now become executive chair. we have been under pressure in recent months as the company shares tumbled nearly 80 percent us semiconductor giant and a video plan is plans to buy chip designer arm for $66000000000.00 have fallen

through due to resistance from regulators. arms, japanese owner, soft bank is now planning to take the company public instead, chips based on army architecture or in almost all smartphones. meanwhile, the e u has announced plans to provide over 40000000000 euros and subsidies or the semiconductor industry to quadruple production by 2030. the goal of the so called chips act is to insulate the block from supply chain problems that have plagued many industries and recent months. now the governments of the u. s. canada, britain and australia are staging a diplomatic boycott of the winter olympics and beijing over human rights concerns . but the president of cash dropped argentina is taking a different approach using the games as an opportunity to jeremiah chinese and best bet will josh when he came to me with argentine as i am a debt crisis threatening to choke his coalition on the economy facing severe head

winds, alberto fernandez, came to china looking for a when he left beijing with a memorandum of understanding that we'll see argentina officially joining china's belgian road initiative was the 1st of south america's for largest economies to do so was e i m this harold. we are very happy to see china's investment in energy and grain production, infrastructure construction, and other fields. gators wasn't. i think belton road will help all parties to establish better trade channels and connections to that during a 40 minute meeting with president, she jim ping fernandez, laid the groundwork for deals that guarantee financing for investments and works worth nearly $24000000000.00. even with many world leaders staying away, state media played up fernandez, his visit, which included a trip to telecoms tech for a while way, which the u. s. is frozen out over security concerns to why way visit showed that for fernandez? the challenge is to balance argentine is budding relationship with china,

when also staying on good terms with its close ally and china's biggest rival, the united states. now our china washer, clifford cannon made that report, joins me now. clifford, what is the logic behind this butting relationship between argentina and china? well, chelsea, it's like john is relationship with a lot of developing countries and countries that are in financial dire straits. it's based on money. and the argentine president has been there trying to, to drum up investment now. they badly needed $44000000000.00 standing to the i, m f. there's all kinds of problems with the economy with ramping inflation. and he's looking anywhere he can to find investment to help lose the economy. and they're still still reeling from the coven 19 pandemic. there's all kinds of headwinds that the economy is facing. so it's like that's, that's basically why they're in china now to see if they can get china to pick up

some of that shortfall. well, china's infrastructure program beltran initiative has received a lot of criticism for encouraging one or both countries to take on too much. dad, will this actually help argentina heard at the end? we're looking at looking at the amount of money that argentina already owns, owes to the i m f and it's in the process of trying to come up with the deal. and it's by no means clear how that will unfold because their protests against the i m f and argentina today. have a look at this sheer amount of money it owes. it's hard not to think that basically by putting yourself into more dash that you're not going to end up getting into trouble sometimes. and i think sometimes there's a tendency because a lot of this, the belgian road initiative initiative is about building influence for china. but at the same time, it's also but alone and loans have to be repaid. and there's no, even though everything is done with great fanfare, and you know how wonderful the infrastructure plan is and extending the belgian road and the new silk road and all that at the end of it, they still have to,

they have to be paid. so there is a danger for argentina that it could be getting itself into more debt problems. so geopolitically i would, becoming closer to china also threaten some of its other relationships. for example, with the u. s. which has a lot of issues the china right now. you know, i think this is one of the things, you know, they're in a very difficult position, argentina, you know, and you feel for fernandez and in the position that he's in because they have to keep their relationship close with the u. s. it's, it's, it dominates their regional, it's the main strategic ally in the region. and it's also the, the 1st port of call when it needs any help. whereas at the same time, u. s. and china, their relations are getting more and more fraud. and this is going to be increasingly a problem. so looking at all of these, adding, adding all these together. it's a very, very difficult balancing act for argentina to be in. and we're going to have to wait and see how things turn out. for now,

he's basically borrowing from peter to pay paul. but whether that could seriously undermine the relationship with the u. s. is also a possibility, clifford can n thanks so much for joining us. now in just 25 years, china has gone from a handful to hundreds at skiers or it's but the winter olympics getting underway, reporter fabi and catch morrow went to it, went to one. take a look. one of the big game changer for skiers from beijing is this brand new bullet train link from the capital to chung thee in her bay province. if you could drive there to have a, it took you like a 3 hour for 4 hours, but you took the train fully take like wow, strongly is hosting most snow sports during the 2022 winter games and just a short ride from the station is tied to a ski resort designed by canadian planets, echosign featuring 30 slopes and surrounding an alpine style village. it open and

2015 shortly after beijing one the right to host the games. title won't host any of the olympic competitions, but it will provide accommodation to some of the 10s of thousands of visitors coming to the games. it's operators are hoping to cash in on long term growth in snow sports. it seems like a safe bet. official industry figures show the number of skiers in china rose to just under 21000000 and 2019. that's over a 1000000 more than the year before. but there is one downside. despite the very beautiful mountain scenery and the state of the art facilities at the region has really one major problem. there's almost no natural snow. the results are heavily reliant on snow making machines to give people the powder they need for a quality skiing experience. regardless the infrastructure that's under development, coupled with china's ambition for metals in 2022 and beyond. mean the future of snow sports. yeah. looks right. and a reminder of the top business story we're falling for you. this, our

u. s. consumers have been piling on credit cards at the fastest rate and 22 years. the federal reserve says current balance is rose to nearly $900000000000.00 in the 4th quarter. americans total that is nearing 16 trillion dollars and that's all from me and the team here in burlington for more from us, check out our website, c, w dot com slash business. until next time, take care. hico africa. you can only protect what you know is the motto for an maybe as to read conservation with many people know or too little about these animals. sometimes i'm getting group of kids. and when they feed and it was, for example, it's, you can use an infant that your rob conservation foundation wants to change this

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