bradley olson? guest: yeah.hink one of the things people have been pointing out to the problem in markets is kind of, you know, contageon impact. a barometer of how much countries are spending in the future. it was 5% and now it's about 10%. the impact of oil on this gauge or barometer of how the country is doing so when prices are down and oil prices aren't spending, you have a lot of decline in capital spending from big companies. also in the bond market, the companies that created the boom used debt to do it and a lot of them are companies where they have to pay investors a high interest rate and they're rated sort of junk meaning they have a lot of debt and they don't make as much money as other big companies like exxon, for example, that have a very high corporate rating. there's a lot of this debt out there and as long as oil continues to fall, this debt has done very poorly. there's concern that this could spread and hit banking and other industries and be a real negative to the economy. there are a lot o

bradley olson, liz anne sonders, we thank you both. >> thanks, judy. woodruff: the republican presidential candidates returned to the campaign trail today after squaring off last night on a debate stage in south carolina. front runners donald trump and ted cruz dominated the event while the rest of the field continue to try to keep pace. newshour correspondent william brangham reports. >> my friend donald said that he had his lawyers look at this from every which way, and there was no issue there. >> brangham: the "issue" is ted cruz's eligibility to run for the presidency. and "donald" is donald trump, who's been highlighting the fact that cruz was born to an american mother-- but in canada. early on, the issue ignited a testy exchange between the two candidates leading the republican field in iowa, who'd >> i recognize that donald is dismayed that his poll numbers are falling in iowa. but the facts and the law here are really quite clear. under longstanding u.s. law, the child of a u.s. citizen born abroad is a natural-born citizen. >> brangham: trum

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