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Jan 18, 2013 — GOP leaders in the House say that will give Democrats in the Senate time to pass a budget that cuts spending. And if Congress doesn't pass a budget, they say, lawmakers shouldn't get their full pay. The move could put off another bruising battle over the borrowing limit.
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Jan 10, 2013 — Just for the sake of financial fun, we've calculated how much platinum it would actually take to mint a coin with $1 trillion worth of the metal in it. Turns out, it's probably more platinum than mankind has available on the market right now.
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Aug 7, 2012 — On today's Planet Money: The legend of the national debt. Where the debt came from, what happened the one time we paid it all off, and who came up with the whole debt-ceiling idea in the first place.
Aug 9, 2011 — Sen. Harry Reid has made his picks for the deficit super committee whose task it is to recommend with $1.5 trillion in federal spending cuts over 10 years — Senators John Kerry of Massachusetts, Patty Murray of Washington State and Max Baucus of Montana.
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Aug 5, 2011 — The downgrade by Standard & Poor's is guaranteed to become a major piece of evidence used by Obama's political opponents against him, as they make the case that he has failed to lead the nation and should not be rewarded with a second term.
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Aug 4, 2011 — Pity the poor debt-ceiling deal, disliked inside Washington and evidently just as unloved well beyond the nation's capital. A Gallup/USA Today poll found 46 percent of respondents saying they opposed the deal compared with 39 percent who were in favor.
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Aug 3, 2011 — What Washington was worried about and what many Americans have been worrying about has seemed out of synch in recent weeks.The fiery Washington debate was about the debt-ceiling, while the concerns of millions of Americans was about jobs, either finding or keeping one.For Democrats, the debt ceiling debate was a distraction from the jobs message they view as key to their re-election efforts.
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Aug 2, 2011 — Democrats may have yielded on their demand for tax increases to achieve the debt-ceiling deal President Obama signed into law Tuesday. But in an interview on All Things Considered, Sen. Harry Reid had a warning for congressional Republicans: Later this year when Congress has to decide on additional ways to cut federal deficits, Democrats intend to stand firm on the need for more tax revenues.
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Aug 2, 2011 — With the debt-ceiling legislation signed into law Tuesday afternoon, the nation no longer needs to worry about defaultmageddon, at least not until early 2013. That's when the U.S. Treasury once again runs out of room to borrow again. Even though there wasn't a default this time, the partisan fight did plenty of damage. Among the casualties: Obama and lawmakers' images.
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Aug 2, 2011 — Physics has known for a long time that there are real physical ceilings in the physical world. Perhaps when our imaginary worlds of economics take those real constraints seriously it will give our beleaguered politicians firmer ground to stand on.
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