"Bankrupts want to print more money, increase their credit and remain in the "leaders". Anecdote. Or the topic of the future forum in the Davos village. One of the sections may be called "Ceilings are the new bottom of the American economy," Zakharova wrote in the Telegram channel.
Yellen said during a congressional hearing that a possible default in the country would lead to a loss of confidence on the part of international partners in both the United States and the dollar as a reserve currency.
She stated the strict need to raise the debt ceiling without preconditions.
Earlier, the director of the Department of Foreign Policy Planning of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Alexei Drobinin, expressed confidence that the dollar is nothing more than a "piece of paper on trust."
The diplomat pointed to the deepening crisis of the Western model of globalization, which is associated with the fact that the political motives of the United States and its allies have outweighed the economic ones.