weighing in on all these issues dr stephanie occult and department chair and professor university of missouri kansas city thanks for having me. thank you for all of the jurors see you want to go back to you. guys were soon approaching world food day on october sixteenth they found on the gold to feed a hunger and make food a source of empowerment for all october also happens to be agent orange awareness month a time to educate about the lasting effects of the deadly chemicals spread by the u.s. military during the vietnam war and with these two important dates in mind activists from all over the world and chosen this saturday october twelfth to hold the second official march against monsanto two months ago does not only responsible for the production of agent orange but now it's overtaking the global food supply with genetically modified seeds the march against this model of the corporation is an international event set to take place in over four hundred cities across fifty countries so to talk more about this massive rally and where a demonstration is taking place near you i was joined earlier by nick b

off confused i was joined earlier by dr stephanie kells an economics professor at the university of missouri kansas city i started by asking dr kalam what would happen if congress fails to raise the debt ceiling. i think the only real answer is you know nobody knows exactly nobody can describe in any sort of concrete terms exactly what it would look like if the u.s. were to miss a payment to default on its debt but i think it's pretty clear that it would be very very bad for the global credit system because then the u.s. debt is you know all the net all the treasury unfallen that this is what we're talking about we're talking about u.s. treasuries and they are the equity that supports the entire global credit system so if we start messing with the equity that underpins the entire global credit system we're talking about something that presumably would be pretty catastrophic the latest didn't but it would shake that confidence invested in treasury bonds and i do i mean i think that you're going to see some some pretty sizable effects i don't know how lasting they would be you know japan defaulted on its

off confused i was joined earlier by dr stephanie kells an economics professor at the university of missouri kansas city i started by asking dr kelly what would happen if congress fails to raise the debt ceiling. i think the only real answer is you know nobody knows exactly nobody can describe in any sort of concrete terms exactly what it would look like if the u.s. were to miss a payment to default on its debt but i think it's pretty clear that it would be very very bad for the global credit system because then the u.s. debt is you know all the net all the treasury unfallen that this is what we're talking about we're talking about u.s. treasuries and they are the equity that supports the entire global credit system so if we start messing with the equity that underpins the entire global credit system we're talking about something that presumably would be pretty catastrophic the latest didn't but it would shake that confidence invested in treasury bonds and i do i mean i think that you're going to see some pretty sizable effects i don't know how lasting they would be you know japan defaulted on its debt