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Slate Money: The Debt Ceiling is Dumb

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The Debt Ceiling Crisis Is a Self-Made Crisis

I think it's very low because Kevin McCarthy just came out with a statement that he said he thought they'd reached an agreement in principle. So the point of which, especially the Republicans are conceding that there's probably going to be some kind of verbal agreement happening. We don't know what it looks like yet. And does Kevin McCarthy have the ability to deliver the Republican votes necessary to raise the debt ceiling? I mean, there's he... Because they only need like five, right? Yeah. This is definitely part of the new, not normal and radical uncertainty surrounding almost everything.

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