Opinion

Lionel Barber on hitting the ceiling

Name: Lionel Barber on hitting the ceiling
Uploaded: 2013-10-16T10:39:29.880Z
Duration: 5 min 19 s
Channel: Financial Times
Description: Financial Times editor on a potential US default

With 24 hours to go until the US reaches its debt ceiling deadline, FT editor Lionel Barber talks to Chris Giles, economics editor, about the likelihood of political reconciliation in Washington and contingency plans for businesses around the world

October 16, 2013

Filmed by James MacDonald. Produced by Seb Morton-Clark.