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Tag: Debt Ceiling

Playing chicken with the debt ceiling: So dangerous, even Reagan wouldn’t go there

January 14, 2013 Renee Shur Budget, Consumer issues, Economy, Financial reform, Good government, Politics, Republicans, Senate, Taxes Leave a comment

$18.9 billion.  That’s what the 2011 debt-limit standoff and the threatened U.S. credit default will be costing taxpayers in higher interest payments over the

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Dan Froomkin: Debt ceiling deal benefits wealthy and Wall Street

August 10, 2011 Madonna Gauding Government, Politics Leave a comment

Dan Froomkin’s explanation of the debt ceiling debacle is one of the best I have read. He makes the simple, obvious, point: The obsessive

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$2 trillion: the ballpark figure du jour?

August 9, 2011 Gloria Shur Bilchik Economy, Politics Leave a comment

$2 trillion is a very popular number. When the right-wing hostage takers at long last agreed to a $2.1 trillion ransom for the debt

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Could Obama have avoided the debt ceiling fight?

August 5, 2011 Madonna Gauding Obama, Politics 2 comments

The standard progressive narrative is that president Obama wanted a clean debt-ceiling hike but was forced, by extremists in the Republican Party, into making

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Debt-ceiling debacle: 21st century Titanic

July 21, 2011 Renee Shur Congress, Economy, History Leave a comment

Ignoring warnings of danger ahead. Steaming at full speed toward disaster. That was the tragedy of the Titanic and its rendezvous with a mass

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