Jonathan Chait offers an insightful look at the politics behind the debt-ceiling fight, including this quote from House Majority Leader Eric Cantor: ?The reason this debt limit fight is different is, we don?t have an election around the corner where we feel we are going to win and fix it ourselves. We are stuck with this government another three years.? The consequences for the economy are less examined in the press but serious.
The truth is that the deficit is falling. As University of Oregon economics professor Mark Thoma writes, the real reason the debt ceiling is not being routinely raised, as was done in the past, ?is not, of course, a fight about how much government debt we should have.? Rather, it is a battle about ?the size and role of government.? But if the dispute isn?t resolved, the Bipartisan Policy Center predicts that sometime between October 18th and November 15th, the Treasury will exhaust its borrowing power. The consequences for the economy, already growing only slowly, will be dire. A default would have world-wide repercussions, as the stock market is already sensing.
What do you think?
Read on for some of the best economic and business stories of the week, and the haiku?
This Week?s Links:
? The cost of climate change | Economix
? The Wall Street takeover | Baseline Scenario
? Shipping the good apples out | Tim Taylor
? Obamacare: 42 questions, 42 answers | Wonkblog
? Robert Reich: Inequality?s intellectual fraudster | Naked Capitalism
? The state that taxes the poor the most?is a blue one (guess who) | Washington Post
? The new normal? Slower R&D spending | Atlanta Fed
? Resetting expectations on the Fed | Tim Duy
? Moody?s, which rated hundreds of billions of subprime securities as investment grade, claims public pension liabilities are much higher than reported | Beat the Press
Today?s Econ Haiku:
Climate deniers
Will never accept science
So burn, baby, burn
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