“A default on US obligations would produce an economic and financial catastrophe,” says US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen. On Tuesday US president Joe Biden and Republican congressional leaders made modest progress towards a deal to raise the country’s $31.4trn debt ceiling, the legal public-borrowing limit.
Debt ceiling unnerves markets
May 19, 2023
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