The people actually in charge of Our One True Plutocracy seem to be getting antsy:
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has had conversations with top Wall Street executives, asking how close Congress could push to the debt limit deadline without sending interests rates soaring and causing stock prices to go lower, people familiar with the matter said.
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The Wall Street executives say even pushing close to the deadline — or talking about it — could have grave consequences in the marketplace.
“[GOP leaders in Congress] don’t seem to understand that you can’t put everything back in the box. Once that fear of default is in the markets, it doesn’t just go away. We’ll be paying the price for years in higher rates,” said one executive.
Nothing some massive tax cuts couldn’t paper over, right?
Lemkin 