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Showing posts with label debt ceiling 2013. Show all posts
Showing posts with label debt ceiling 2013. Show all posts
Sunday, November 24, 2013

Andy Sullivan — Tea Party Republicans Backed By Big Corporate Players Following Shutdown

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Snake pit. The Huffington Post Tea Party Republicans Backed By Big Corporate Players Following Shutdown Andy Sullivan | Reuters
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

David Henry and Lauren Tara LaCapra — Big Banks Prepared For U.S. Default

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Behind the scenes there was no complacency. The Huffington Post Big Banks Prepared For U.S. Default David Henry and Lauren Tara LaCapra | ...
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Thursday, October 17, 2013

Brian Romanchuk — Some Further Comments On My “Debt Ceiling” Model (Wonkish)

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I just want to make some additional comments on the Stock-Flow Consistent (SFC) model for a hard debt ceiling I introduced in this recent a...
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AFP —China downgrades U.S. credit rating and accuses lawmakers of holding world hostage

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A Chinese ratings agency downgraded its U.S. sovereign credit rating Thursday despite Washington’s resolution of the debt ceiling deadlock,...
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

— Exclusive: S&P Says U.S. Was Minutes From Falling To Rock-Bottom Rating By Leah McGrath Goodman

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Key to making such decisions is John Chambers, the global head of S&P’s sovereign ratings committee and a member of the team, led by co...
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Brian Romanchuk — Why A Hard Debt Limit Is A Very Bad Idea

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At the time of writing, the debt ceiling negotiations in the United States are in a state of flux. One idea that has been floating around...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Mehdi Hasan — The World Is Laughing At The United States Over The Government Shutdown

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Not a laughing matter. "Civilisations," wrote the legendary English historian of empire [Arnold Toynbee], "die from suicide...

Ian Millhiser — Read This One Document If You Want To Understand Why Republicans Followed Ted Cruz Off A Cliff

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Conservative Evangelicals and Tea Party classical liberals are sure that this is the endgame for them, and they are convinced that if they ...
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David Corn — Economist Mark Zandi on Default: "We Will Be Dooming Our Economy and the Entire Global Economy" For Years

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McCain//Palin economic advisor Mark Zandi: "The point is that with each passing day the debt limit is not increased the more damage it...
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David Edwards — GOP House members sing Christian hymn ‘Amazing Grace’ before pushing to derail Senate deal (via Raw Story )

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GOP House members sing Christian hymn ‘Amazing Grace’ before pushing to derail Senate deal (via Raw Story ) Before pushing an alternati...
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Saturday, October 12, 2013

Stephen Rosenfeld — Will Obama Abandon Tens of Millions of Seniors to Get a Budget Deal with Right-Wing Republicans?

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It appears that the GOP’s price for reopening government and raising the debt limit is for Obama to “seriously consider,” as Cole said, an ...
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Thursday, October 10, 2013

Michael Stephens — What Happens if We Don’t Raise the Debt Ceiling? A Stock-Flow Analysis

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What would that kind of radical austerity do to the economy? Michalis Nikiforos uses the Levy Institute’s macroeconomic model to estimate t...

John Carney — Is Washington crying wolf over a default?

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John, this is not just Washington. Did you catch Jeff Cox's piece today on the doomsday scenarios outlined by financial professionals,...
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John Harvey — Debt Ceiling Theatrics

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What we are witnessing in Washington is a travesty. A small group of Republicans is holding our economy hostage. As usual, the casualties w...

John LIght — Ignore the Spin: This Debt Ceiling Crisis is Not Politics as Usual

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Ignore the Spin: This Debt Ceiling Crisis is Not Politics as Usual (via Moyers & Company ) Never before has a minority party linked...
Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Kevin Drum — The Weird Politics of Republican Hostage Taking

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Here's the weird part: The (relative) moderates want to rely on the debt ceiling for leverage, even though breaching the debt ceiling w...
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Howard Fineman — Heritage Action Bails On Debt Ceiling Fight [But Not Shutdown]

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A crack appeared Wednesday morning in the conservatives' united front against President Barack Obama in the budget-and-borrowing crisis...
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Randy Wray — Flash From the Past: Why QE2 Wouldn’t Save Our Sinking Ship

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Here’s a piece I published in HuffPost back on Oct 18, 2010. A flash from the past–three years ago–predicting that QE2 would prove to be as...

Joseph Cotterill — Breaking the full faith and credit, vs breaking the buck

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...we are told not to fuss about those T-bills. Really? If money market funds aren’t treating T-bills as fungible with cash right now, that...

David Lightman — Debt Limit? Why Should I Care?

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People generally don't understand what it's all about, and a lot don't fear the economic fallout, according to a new United Tec...
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