Daunting debt limit dynamics
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The debt limit was originally enacted to simplify the process of issuing debt to fund government spending. But what began as an attempt at efficiency has turned into a frequent game of political brinkmanship. Stephen Kaplan argues that the constant wrangling over the debt limit creates the tail risk, however small it may be, of a U.S sovereign debt default.
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