Debt Ceiling

Fitch Ratings Warns on US AAA Debt Rating

Posted: August 23, 2017 at 12:55 pm

The U.S. government will run into its congressionally mandated debt limit in October unless the Congress raises it above its current ceiling of $19.81 trillion. If the debt ceiling is ...
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Senate Resumes Talks After House Vote Cancelled

Posted: October 15, 2013 at 8:25 pm

The seemingly never-ending story of negotiations to end the Washington stalemate over the looming debt ceiling took a few more unexpected turns this after. First, the U.S. House cancelled a ...
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Congress and President Ignore International Calls for Debt Solution

Posted: October 14, 2013 at 6:46 am

Congress and the White House have become adroit at ignoring the desires of voters to resolve the issue of the government debt and sending home roughly 800,000 workers. So why ...
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OECD Lashes Out at U.S. Budget Trouble to No Avail

Posted: October 10, 2013 at 6:31 am

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is the latest organization to attack the budget freeze in Washington. Like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and scores of ...
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Appellate Court Judge Posner Calls Debt Ceiling “Pernicious”

Posted: October 7, 2013 at 8:55 am

U.S. Appellate Court Judge Richard Posner weighs in Monday morning with a blog post on the approaching crisis over raising the federal debt ceiling. Posner, long associated with conservative and ...
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The Debt Ceiling Debate Could Kill the Bull Market

Posted: August 27, 2013 at 9:55 am

It's back! It is time for yet another round of political infighting over the lovely state of our nation's finances. Monday was bloodied by undertones of war or military intervention ...
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Americans to Obama: The Economy Is All That Counts

Posted: August 21, 2013 at 6:36 am

President Obama cannot run for office again, at least not for the presidency. So, the effects of his approval ratings are academic. However, he may care about how he is ...
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CBO Argues for an End to Federal Cuts

Posted: July 26, 2013 at 6:19 am

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports that it is this simple: the cancellation of the automatic spending reductions specified by the Budget Control Act of 2011, or sequestration as it ...
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U.S. House Kicks the Can on Debt Ceiling

Posted: January 23, 2013 at 1:49 pm

The U.S. House of Representatives today approved legislation that lifts the debt ceiling and allows the Treasury Department to borrow more money. The bill postpones the day of decision from ...
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Stocks to Buy for the Coming Rise in Interest Rates (UBS, AMTD, SCHW, LNC, UNM, HIG)

Posted: January 15, 2013 at 9:42 am

We recently wrote that shorting the Treasury bond market may very well be the next biggest short-sale trade since the subprime mortgage short. While rates have dipped a little in the ...
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The Debt Ceiling and the $1 Trillion Coin

Posted: January 7, 2013 at 11:02 am

All the attention paid to avoiding the fiscal cliff may have obscured an even more important legislative failure. Congress did not act to raise the U.S. debt ceiling by the ...
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Congress, White House Prepare for Looming Budget Battles

Posted: November 9, 2012 at 6:54 am

The most widely covered story by the financial press, and perhaps the news media in its entirety, between now and year's end will be the war between the president and ...
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Budget Deal: No New Taxes

Posted: August 1, 2011 at 6:29 am

"Read my lips: no new taxes"--George H. W. Bush at the 1988 Republican National Convention The final budget bill crafted to allow an increase in the debt cap will be ...
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D-Day Minus 6: Countdown to Default?

Posted: July 27, 2011 at 9:12 pm

Six days before the United States will have insufficient funds to pay all its creditors, Republicans and Democrats have yet to reach an agreement on how to avoid default and ...
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Debt-Ceiling Deal Appears Closer to Becoming Reality

Posted: July 20, 2011 at 12:01 pm

The debt-ceiling Armageddon being fought in Washington has never been chiefly about money. Because everyone except the most extreme members of the Tea Party Movement knows that the debt limit ...
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