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What Next: Will the Debt Ceiling Cave in This Time?

What Next: Will the Debt Ceiling Cave in This Time?

FromSlate News


What Next: Will the Debt Ceiling Cave in This Time?

FromSlate News

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Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Jan 24, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The U.S. has hit the debt ceiling—again And with Congress divided, it’s unclear when or how the government will get approved to borrow more.Why is this perennial fight coming back around now? And what happens—locally and to the world economy—if the U.S. Treasury defaults? 

Guest: Jordan Weissmann, Washington editor for Semafor.

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Released:
Jan 24, 2023
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A quasi-daily podcast from Slate chronicling Donald Trump's rise to the presidency and his current administration. Journalists Virginia Heffernan and León Krauze talk to reporters, historians, psychiatrists, and other experts to help explain who this man is and why this is happening, right now, in the United States of America.