Indyplus video: Lagarde warns US lawmakers they risk tipping world into recession

 

Sunday 13 October 2013 21:09 BST
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US policy makers risk causing a “massive disruption the world over” that could tip the global economy into another recession if politics gets in the way of raising the country’s debt ceiling and the ongoing government shutdown remains unresolved, Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund, has warned.

Watch her in the video below:

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