Comment & Analysis
The U.S. Treasury can prevent debt default, but the cure would bring on a recession
The U.S. Treasury has the means to avoid a debt default even if Congress fails to raise the government’s US$16.7 trillion borrowing limit. The bad news is that it can’t prevent a recession. U.S. debt default would blow Lehman disaster out of water Failure by the world’s largest borrower to…
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