Over the past few weeks, the US has been wrestling with a crippling budget deficit as well as a potential default. If a new policy on the country’s debt ceiling is not agreed upon by the politicians before August 2 (exactly 8 days from today), we might just witness a US default for the first time in history. A looming downgrade by credit ratings agencies on US debt is also a distinct possibility. A continent away, European leaders are brainstorming on how to pull the region out of a potenti...
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