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Debt Ceiling Fight Risks Fiscal DEFCON 1

Debt Ceiling Fight Risks Fiscal DEFCON 1

Like a recurring bad dream, the debt ceiling is back in the news. The periodic political spasm over increasing the amount of money that the government is authorized to borrow to meet its existing legal obligations is not new, but because it comes on the tail end of a global pandemic, it seems horribly ill-timed.