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Photo of David Wessel and Paul Solman by Diane Lincoln Estes.The Wall Street Journal David Wessel recently took us on a D.C. budget tour for a NewsHour story on his new book Red Ink. One stop on the tour landed us in front of the Treasury Department, under the statue of Alexander Hamilton, where Wessel told us about Treasury origins and interest on the federal debt. Because we could use only small snippets in the broadcast, which aired Thursday, an extended excerpt is published here.David Wessel: Alexander Hamilton was the first Secretary of the Treasury and in many ways he t
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stanley cup o this deal David Wessel: Right, just like Germany doesn ;t want to sign onto Italy debt. So the deal was they agreed to make the debt federal, to share everybody debt, and the [non-Virginians] agreed to move the Capitol south to Washington, right on the edge of Virginia.Wessel and I then moved on to the reason for staging this segment of the tour at Treasury: the amount of our red ink accounted for by the federal debt that is issued he Sfhu What some of the funniest minds in comedy are saying about 8220;Breaking Bad 8221;
MOSCOW 鈥?Chanting slogans against President Vladimir Putin, tens of thousands took to the streets Sunday across Russia to demand the release of jailed opposition
air max 1 leader Alexei Navalny, keeping up nationwide protests that have rattl
jordan ed the Kremlin. More than 4,500 people were detained by police, according to a monitoring group, and some were beaten.Russian authorities mounted a massive effort t
stanley cup o stem the tide of demonstrations after tens of thousands rallied across the country last weekend in the largest, most widespread show of discontent that Russia had seen in years. Despite threats of jail terms, warnings to social media groups and tight police cordons, the protests again engulfed cities across Russias 11 time zones on Sunday.Navalnys team quickly called another protest in Moscow on Tuesday, when he is set to face a court hearing that could send him to prison for years.The 44-year-old Navalny, an anti-corruption investigator who is Putins best-known critic, was arrested on Jan.17 upon returning from Germany, where he spent five months recovering from nerve-agent poisoning that he blames on the Kremlin. Russian authorities have rejected the accusations. He was arrested for allegedly violating his parole conditions by not reporting for meetings with law enforcement when he was recuperating in Germany.The United States urged Russia to release Navalny and criticized the crackdown on protests. The U.S. condemns the persistent use of harsh tactics against peaceful protesters and
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