April 27 (Bloomberg) — Austan Goolsbee, a senior White House economic adviser, talks with Bloomberg’s Betty Liu about today’s first meeting of the 18-member bipartisan debt-reduction commission. President Barack Obama, in a February executive order, created the body to come up with ways to cut the federal governments record debt and deficits that he said threaten to “hobble our economy.” Goolsbee, speaking from Chicago, also discusses the outlook for an overhaul of the financial regulatory system and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (Source: Bloomberg)

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April 9 (Bloomberg) — John Brynjolfsson, chief investment officer at Armored Wolf LLC, talks with Bloomberg’s Carol Massar and Matt Miller about Greece’s debt crisis. European Union officials said they are ready to rescue Greece if needed as Fitch Ratings cut the countrys credit rating to the lowest investment grade and economists at UBS AG said that a bailout may be imminent. (Source: Bloomberg)

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March 26 (Bloomberg) — European Central Bank Executive Board member Lorenzo Bini Smaghi talks with Bloombergs Betty Liu about the International Monetary Fund’s involvement in a plan to assist Greece with its fiscal crisis. Leaders of the 16-nation euro region endorsed a Franco-German proposal for a mix of IMF and bilateral loans at market interest rates, while voicing confidence that Greece wont need outside help to cut Europes biggest budget deficit. (Source: Bloomberg)

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Feb. 17 (Bloomberg) — Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist and a professor at Columbia University, talks with Bloomberg’s Margaret Brennan about the need for additional U.S. stimulus targeting job creation. Stiglitz also discusses the role of U.S. banks in the global financial crisis and Greece’s debt problems. (This is an excerpt of the full interview. Source: Bloomberg)

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Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) — Paul Rawkins, a senior director at Fitch Ratings, talks with Bloomberg’s Maryam Nemazee about whether Greece can meet its committment to cut its debt.

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Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) — Thomas Byrne, senior vice president at Moody’s Investors Service in Singapore, talks with Bloomberg’s Bernard Lo about Greece’s debt problems. (Source: Bloomberg)

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