US economy stepped away from the crisis
The U.S. president Barack Obama said the U.S. economy has overcome the crisis and a growing again. “We see that picked the economy from the crisis and grow again. Companies began to hire people to work, but this does not happen as fast as we want,” the president said in an interview with CBS. Labor market in the U.S. occur recovered somewhat – Unemployment fell to 9,7 percent in January from 10 percent in December. Economy has grown by 5.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009 and during the third growth was 2.2 percent. Barack Obama announced that he had invited leaders of the Republicans and the Democrats for a discussion on health reform on 25 February. The President and the democratic leaders in Congress seeking to push through healthcare reform law, once again the Republicans are able to block bills in the Senate. According to sociological polls Obama and Democrats in Congress are not demanding enough Republican support for health reform. Discussion on 25 February will be attended by leading representatives of the Republican and Democratic party of both houses of Congress – the House of Representatives and Senate. Is optimistic and the Minister of Finance Timothy Гейтнер, who in an interview with ABC News, quoted by the agency Reuters, says that currently the risk of re-recession in the U.S. is very low. However Geytnar acknowledges that recovery will be slow and uneven.
The biggest threat, according to Reuters is growing indebtedness of the United States, which could undermine the country’s credit rating. News agency points out that ratings agency Moody’s warned some time ago that anemic growth in the U.S. economy and problems of fiscal deficit may undermine kreditniyareyting the country.
Гейтнер however, believes differently. He was categorical that narstvashtiyat debt will not affect the credit rating. And regarding the reported increase almost 6 percent of the U.S. economy during the last quarter of 2009 Гейтнер said it commemorated “rescue” after the financial crisis hit the country in late 2007
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