The US “Debt Ceiling Crisis” is back – Should you be worried?
One measure the US government can take is suspend daily reinvestment of certain funds. The government can pause investments in certain funds to create room for more borrowing. This is what happened in 2021, when the government borrowed $262 billion, which it repaid later that year. The thing is these measures will continue until 14 March. So, they simply buy time. They don’t increase the debt limit or change government spending. And the longer these “extraordinary measures” go on, the closer the US government gets to defaulting.
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