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106: WaPo Economics Columnist Catherine Rampell

The Al Franken Podcast

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The Scariest Thing Ever Happened Economically

The U.S. debt is currently considered the safest of safe places to keep your money. "We're approaching the scariest thing that's ever happened economically in our history," he says. The dollar is the default currency, yep. It's like the basis on which lots of other transactions are benchmarked or calculated.

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