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Can corporate America cope with its vast debt pile?

  • How has business investment been affected by rising interest rates?

  • How does that affect GDP?

  • Which businesses are most affected by rising rates? Why?

  • What do you expect to happen to default rates? Why?

Ariel Slonim at MRU Econinbox

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