Carney admitted today that we only begin the process of risking default on August 2nd when we lose our borrowing authority, but we won’t necessarily default on that day. Well that clears things up:




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Jeff Pearce Sr.
Jeff Pearce Sr.

Help me out here. We need to borrow money to pay back monies we borrowed. How am I doing so far? If we don't borrow more money to pay back monies we borrowed, it will be harder to get credit to borrow more money to pay back money we don't have, so we can borrow more money we need to pay back money we borrowed to supplant the money we spend on money we need to borrow to pay.......am I close?

KenInMontana
KenInMontana

Everytime I turn around I hear some media talking head (doesn't matter which network) say "The August 2nd deadline .......when we default on our debt." I find myself screaming at the TV or the Radio, "NO IT ISN'T, it's the debt ceiling". They have all been trying to beat that message into our heads, that one minute after midnight Aug 2nd ,that's it kids the sky has fallen.

KenInMontana
KenInMontana

Everytime I turn around I hear some media talking head (doesn't matter which network) say "The August 2nd deadline .......when we default on our debt." I find myself screaming at the TV or the Radio, "NO IT ISN'T, it's the debt ceiling". They have all been trying to beat that message into our heads, that one minute after midnight Aug 2nd ,that's it kids the sky has fallen.