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In the debt-ceiling fiasco, Mr Obama's popularity did not revive, despite the GOP's display of gross irresponsibility. Why was that?

Graham, speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press, " said he would not vote to raise the debt ceiling unless spending is cut back to 2008 levels.

The Asian giant is so powerful, in fact, that it could -- if it chose -- help the White House end the debt-ceiling impasse.

Uria cites the long, drawn out negotiations between the White House and Congress over raising the debt ceiling as an example.

A simple act of Congress is all that is needed to raise the debt ceiling.

Earlier this week, the word was that the Obama administration would "pivot" to jobs now that the debt ceiling has been raised.

But he said that the current blueprint, if passed, at least deals with the debt ceiling and that the government's bills will be paid.

Such a desire to shorten up exposures in the run-up to the resolution of the debt-ceiling debate led overnight repo rates to spike.

Throughout the dysfunctional dialectic that gripped the two parties over the debt ceiling, the yield on U. S. continued to fall.

You could say that the debt-ceiling impasse, which prompts such thoughts, is out of the ordinary and no basis for prediction.

On this view, this summer's fight over raising the debt ceiling was just a preview of a reckoning to come.

How much does this downgrade have to do with Congress' recent fight over the federal debt ceiling?

SAY this about all the bickering over the federal debt ceiling: at least people are talking openly about our nation's growing debt load.

The high-wire confrontation over the debt ceiling in the U. S. Congress raised the prospect of a default by the world's biggest borrower.

Republicans appearing on the Sunday shows did not back away from Boehner's combative remarks on the debt ceiling.

Follow I might take Sarah Palins comments seriously if I thought she understood what a debt ceiling was. . . No, no I wouldnt.

Many Americans - and non-Americans - might have wondered this in recent weeks, amid the drama surrounding the debt ceiling.

President Barack Obama is trying to win congressional approval to raise the nation's legal debt ceiling before an August 2 deadline.

The markets had temporarily turned away from the crippling debt crisis in Europe two weeks ago as the debt ceiling debate in the U.

Why else would Mitch McConnell have promised on August 1st to do exactly the same the next time the debt ceiling must be raised?

"[CDS trading is] all about the debt ceiling, " said David Ader, strategist at CRT Capital.

He said a government default remains uncharted territory, "which is one reason why it's not a good idea to hit the debt ceiling. "

With a sluggish economy, and a still unresolved debate over raising the debt ceiling, there's much uncertainty in Washington.

Republican House Speaker John Boehner has walked away from crunch debt ceiling talks at the White House with US President Barack Obama.

'We understand the stakes, ' Clinton said of the debt ceiling talks, as she attempted to reassure America's biggest investors.

In the U. S. , the flashpoint among investors was the political acrimony over raising the debt ceiling.

THE deficit-reduction deal that finally raised America's debt ceiling and staved off the threat of default seemed to make no one happy.

As one senator put it while waiting to vote on the budget deal, "The debt ceiling is going to be Armageddon. "

The White House said Fitch's warning makes it clear that "there is no alternative to raising the debt ceiling. "

Today's high unemployment, sluggish growth, paltry levels of capital investment and bickering over the debt ceiling are of a piece.

Republican unbridled hostility on this debt ceiling matter is equal to waging war on the United States of American.

And of course, failure to raise the debt ceiling at all would force an immediate contraction in federal spending equal to 9% of GDP.

It had been reported that he intended to quit after the US debt ceiling was raised in order to be with his family in New York.

The Treasury has said the government will run out of money Aug. 2 if the $14. 29 trillion debt ceiling isn't raised.

Sovereign debt problems in Europe and the protracted political battle over increasing the U. S. debt ceiling have weighed on stocks.

Coming so shortly on the heels of the subprime crisis, the debate over the debt ceiling and the budget deficit is the last straw.

Hints of this could be found among those who wanted the president to raise the debt ceiling unilaterally.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Will the sky fall on August 2 if the U. S. Congress fails to raise the debt ceiling?

The paralyzing standoff between the two major American parties was dramatized by the idiocies of the debt-ceiling debate.

Expect more destabilising brinkmanship, just like the sort that attended the debt-ceiling crisis in the summer.

Top Senate Democrat Harry Reid wants to raise the debt ceiling by enough to kick the crisis beyond the November 2012 presidential election.

yet it is also naive to expect investors to be fobbed off with lame efforts like the debt-ceiling deal.

Until recently, financial markets consistently shrugged off the debt-ceiling fight as distracting political theater.

"The U. S. debt ceiling impasse is killing the dollar, " said Kathy Lien, director of currency research at GFT Forex in New York.

For politicians instead to pour their energy into unnecessary debt-ceiling negotiations comes close to criminal negligence.

After months of talks Congress increased the limit on the federal debt ceiling to avoid a default just ahead of a Treasury deadline.

As a consequence, debt-ceiling rows are likely to occur more frequently, with contentious discussions of federal spending.

In the US, the administration declares it will run out of funding early next month if the debt ceiling is not raised.

Beijing is concerned enough about the risk of default from the U. S. after the unseemly squabbling over the debt ceiling.

If Congress does not act to increase the debt ceiling by early August, the US faces the theoretical prospect of defaulting on its debt.

By then, the government will be about to bump up against the federal debt ceiling, any increase in which requires congressional approval.

It blamed unprecedentedly high interest from small investors, a delay in raising the debt ceiling and a word-processing-equipment failure.

House Republicans aim to use the debt ceiling vote as another means of compelling drastic cuts in spending.

But the subsequent US debt ceiling deal, with its demands for deep cuts, now makes that unlikely.

In Washington they are arguing about a debt ceiling; in Brussels they are staring into a debt abyss.

The president prefers a "clean" increase in the debt ceiling, with discussion of spending and tax changes to take place later.

Business interests have made it clear that they're horrified at the prospect of hitting the debt ceiling.

Until recently Treasury officials had believed that the big fiscal issues could not be resolved with the debt-ceiling clock running down.

The Tea Party enthusiasts are intent on near-term government spending cuts as a condition of supporting any increase in the debt ceiling.

We want to see real structural, cultural-type changes tied to this debt ceiling.

The IMF said that if American lawmakers failed to agree a new debt ceiling by next week, it would also affect global financial markets.

The debt ceiling will be raised, and the U. S. government will not default on its obligations.

Even if Congress were to tackle turmoil by quickly lifting the debt ceiling, the stain would linger.

The Senate is expected to approve a higher debt ceiling limit and more than $2 trillion in spending cuts over the next decade.

After all, it was Mr Boehner who reminded his freshmen colleagues that on the debt ceiling they'd have to act like "adults. "

In a crucial late phase of the debt-ceiling talks, the president stood aside yet again.

And even now, the Obama administration could have resorted to legal maneuvering to sidestep the debt ceiling, using any of several options.

The president's signature was required on an agreement to lift the US debt ceiling.

At the height of the debt-ceiling uncertainty on Friday, a handful of mortgage real-estate investment trusts suffered a mini flash crash.

Wall Street executives have called Capitol Hill with increasing frequency in recent weeks, urging it to raise the debt ceiling immediately.

The markets' response to the debt ceiling showdown in Washington has so far been muted.

As the head of the Chamber of Commerce put it recently, "Congress needs to raise the debt ceiling and it must do so without delay. "

But the fact the debt ceiling decision went to the wire speaks eloquently of the diminished authority of the White House.

But the political battle lines over raising the debt ceiling so the United States can meet its obligations remain rigid.

Certainly, Washington's jockeying over the debt ceiling has done little to bolster confidence, already in short supply.

High oil prices. Europe's debt crisis. Unexpected inflation. Washington's bickering over the federal debt ceiling.

The deal on the debt ceiling in the U. S. shifts priorities for China's economic policy makers. Reuters.

Thus, an apparently benign market environment can darken quite suddenly as a country approaches its debt ceiling.

The farcical debate on the debt ceiling temporarily distracted traders from the slow-motion sovereign debt crisis in Europe.

And many increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by substantive fiscal changes (six times over the past two decades).

In resolving the debt ceiling issues, August 4, about to enter the "fifties" of the year Barack Obama relief, 3-day celebration even joking.

The president counts as perhaps his biggest victory the reprieve from debt-ceiling blackmail for two more years.

Treasury officials believe the US could default on its debt in early July if the debt ceiling is not raised.

Following the various negotiations on raising the US debt ceiling is like nailing jelly to a wall.

Republicans want to use the debt ceiling vote to extract new spending cuts and budget controls from Democrats and the White House.

The political drama in Washington over raising the United States'federal debt ceiling has grabbed the world's attention.

New York trader Benedict Willis says the coming debate over raising the debt ceiling could be even more acrimonious.

She continues to maintain, preposterously, that Standard & Poor's downgraded America's credit because Congress raised the debt ceiling.

Of course, this can go wrong, as demonstrated by the sadomasochism of the recent debt-ceiling wrangle.

The looming debt ceiling has government agencies backing away from spending. Forecasting a slowdown in demand in the short term.

Congress is again riven over funding the government, just weeks after the summer's debt-ceiling debate led to a downgrade of Treasury debt.

The brinkmanship over raising the debt ceiling is a prime example for the argument that democracy is irrational, right?

When asked if he was willing to "play chicken" with the debt ceiling, Hensarling said he didn't know what that meant.

The year of gridlock reached a low point in the midsummer showdown over the federal debt ceiling.

Markets were remarkably unmoved by Washington's political theater over the debt ceiling.

The debt ceiling was raised without so much as a whimper every other year of W's presidency and guess what.

Asked what he most wanted for his birthday, Mr Obama said 'a debt-ceiling deal. '

Top of the agenda will be negotiations to avoid a crisis over the nation's debt ceiling.

At a conference last week, Mr. Immelt expressed frustration at the summer's debt-ceiling standoff.

Despite relief at the debt-ceiling agreement, America's fiscal situation remains deeply problematic.

So is a failure to raise the debt ceiling unthinkable? Not at all.

The White House is "very focused on the need to move with speed" on raising the debt ceiling, spokesman Jay Carney said.

The debt-ceiling negotiators are looking at "targets and triggers" for taxes and spending.

The Treasury market was roiled during the last shutdown and debt ceiling standoff in 1995.

The US President and Congress have agreed to raise the debt ceiling, but have put off difficult decisions to raise taxes and cut spending.

President Obama's deficit reduction plans sets the stage for a fractious political battle regarding the $14. 3 trillion debt ceiling.

The legislation raised the nation's debt ceiling and set the groundwork for additional action to cut the massive federal deficit.

S. parties are matters to improve the public debt ceiling of an intense game.

The bill will raise the US debt ceiling by $900bn over the next few months and by another $1. 5tn early next year.

Many hoped the debt-ceiling increase would be the vehicle to deliver it.

Republicans believe they are on the upswing after demanding steep cuts as the price for raising the debt ceiling.

The United States has hit the debt ceiling. Do you know what that means? Neither do I.

The debt ceiling vote will be a high-stakes political showdown with national and international implications.

The law creating the debt ceiling itself needs to be repealed.

U. S. may miss paying some bills on time due to the political stalemate over lifting the debt ceiling.

That's just the pose Mr Obama struck during the impasse over the debt ceiling.

The spending curbs in the debt-ceiling deal will not dampen growth much, but the expiry of previous stimulus will.

Republican negotiators now say they want $2. 5 trillion in cuts over the coming decade to raise the debt ceiling by a like amount.

In his book, Clinton nicks Obama for not raising the federal debt ceiling in late 2010, when Democrats held both houses of Congress.

The Treasury will likely have to scale back auctions in August if the debt ceiling isn't raised.

The agreement that broke the impasse over the US debt ceiling came with hours to spare before the Treasury's deadline.

After this week, Congress recesses until early May, returning just two weeks before Treasury hits the debt ceiling.

The debate over raising the debt ceiling comes amid a highly polarized political atmosphere here in Washington.

Democrats and Republicans may well escape a calamitous default with an 11th-hour deal on the debt ceiling.

The recent deficit-cutting, debt-ceiling deal largely ignored the deteriorating economy.

The debate about the US debt ceiling and its likely consequences highlights the dilemma.

The debt-ceiling battle resolves less than you might think.

In recent weeks, senior officials at both institutions have warned in general terms about the risks of failing to raise the debt ceiling.

With the August 2 deadline for raising the US debt ceiling days away, Democrats and Republicans continue to talk past each other.

In the aftermath of the debt ceiling agreement there will be calls for further stimulus for America's economy.

The new bill would raise the debt ceiling and permit the Fed to pay interest on reserves immediately.

The impasse has prompted several fallback plans to raise the debt ceiling if the $4 trillion target is not met.

It was unclear whether Congress would raise the debt ceiling to accurately reflect what the country will spend this year.

When offered a debt ceiling package with defence cuts, the Republican leadership signed on the dotted line.

With the debt ceiling debate behind us, markets have once again put their eye on economic fundamentals.

It must raise the debt ceiling to enable continued national borrowing and avoid a catastrophic default.

"The pace that we'll be unwinding this will not have much impact on the debt ceiling discussions, " a senior Treasury official said.

You'd be hard-pressed to identify their positions on any relevant issue -- whether it is raising the debt ceiling or just the gasoline tax.

For Boehner, success means pushing a debt ceiling deal through the House that passes on Republican votes alone.

The Republicans took the country hostage by linking the debt ceiling to their plans for spending cuts, and then refused to deviate.

How Barack Obama allowed the Republicans to rout him over the debt ceiling.

That's obviously true about the various proposals being floated to resolve the debt-ceiling crisis here.

Economist Gary Burtless at the Brookings Institution says the political debate on deficits and the debt ceiling has made matters worse.

The region's bigger bond markets remained unsettled this week (America's debt-ceiling wrangle will not have helped, of course).

But in any case, they're almost surely wrong: seriously bad consequences will follow if the debt ceiling isn't raised.

Presumably, this would be after, or a condition of, raising the debt ceiling.

Will this farce recur every time the debt ceiling needs raising?

The raucous debt-ceiling debate represents a good start in forging a serious long-term fiscal plan.

The spending cuts or the sequester, that issue was delayed two months, Two, there's nothing represent the debt ceiling in this bill either.

Under Mr. Boehner's plan, the debt ceiling would immediately rise by $900 billion, accompanied by the $917 billion in spending cuts.

Another initiative was launched this autumn after the summer's debt ceiling debacle, namely a bipartisan "Supercommittee" .

The U. S. government has until August 2 to raise the debt ceiling from its current $14. 3 trillion.

We believe that Congress will act with an 11th hour deal to raise the debt ceiling.

The deficit issue has become entangled with a vote Congress will soon consider on raising the nation's $14. 3 trillion debt ceiling.

Meanwhile, the House passed legislation calling for drastic spending cuts in return for raising the debt ceiling.

The ongoing debt-ceiling battle is an additional source of uncertainty.

But as the stalemate continues over plans to raise the debt ceiling by Aug. 2, investors are growing worried.

The real story of the debt-ceiling showdown is not that democracy is pathological.

Why should a Congress incapable of raising the debt ceiling without an operatic ideological battle be capable of changes such as this?

There is a decent chance the noisy debate over the US debt ceiling will catch investors' attention.

Failing to raise the debt ceiling stops money already approved by Congress from being spent.

There is no reason to have a national debt ceiling if every time we reach it, Congress raises it.

A fight over the debt ceiling could, in fact, force the two sides to negotiate.

Congress has now voted to extend the US debt ceiling and undertake major deficit reduction.

Opposition Republicans in Congress refuse to increase the debt ceiling unless the government budget deficit is reduced significantly.

Republicans are playing a dangerous game by refusing to raise the debt ceiling, according to Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett.

Not having done so, he now faces a steeper uphill battle after the poisoned politics of debt ceiling farce.

The president signed the debt ceiling bill into law.

Standard &Poor's could choose to cut America's AAA rating even if Congress does a debt ceiling deal.

Increasing the debt ceiling is a routine operation that allows the government to pay the bills Congress has already run up.

Days ago, US president Barack Obama had just passed the bill of raising the debt ceiling.

The deadlock and the wrangling over the debt-ceiling has been going on for months.

The American government reached the federal-debt ceiling of $14. 3 trillion.

The Republicans had demanded the cuts in return for raising the debt ceiling.

On Tuesday, President Barack Obama signed the debt-ceiling deal into law.

Politicians in the US remained locked in negotiations to raise the country's debt ceiling by August 2 or trigger a possible default.

Could he not have made raising the debt ceiling a condition of extending the Bush-era tax cuts last December?

Associated Press, Giffords night vote on the motion after the debt ceiling increase, leaving the Capitol.

In part because, fifth, the theory assumes that voters understand what the debt ceiling is.

In the deafening cacophony of voices in Washington on the debt ceiling, it is easy to miss a potentially more significant development.

Earlier this year he led negotiations on raising the debt ceiling.

The debt-ceiling agreement is complicated and opaque.

They have refused to increase the debt ceiling, the maximum amount the government can borrow, without an agreement to make such cuts.

ensuring that the debt ceiling will be hit during this fiscal year.

The debt-ceiling talks in Washington have stumbled again.

That was seen by traders as reflecting the need to cover the risk of Congress failing to pass the debt ceiling by August.

According to Gallup, 60% of Republicans, 46% of independents and 21% of Democrats oppose increasing the debt ceiling at all.

So, today we banged our head against the current debt ceiling for the first time.

John's list, immigration reform, gun control and the debt ceiling.

Of course, the debt-ceiling debacle is partly to blame.

Meanwhile, the debt-ceiling clock runs down.

Republicans are using the debt ceiling issue as leverage to demand sharp budget cuts that Democrats want to minimize.

Republicans are also threatening to refuse to raise the government debt ceiling.

First, increase the debt ceiling.

Especially now that Obama can waste another 2. 8 trillion in borrowed money with debt ceiling being raised.

The two parties also disagree on the time and quantum of raising the debt ceiling.

They pick a fight on the federal budget and the debt ceiling.

When Congress finally produced a plan at the 11th hour to raise the debt ceiling, it proposed just $2. 1 trillion in cuts.

It hit $1 trillion in 1982, when the ratio of debt ceiling to GDP was just over 30 percent. Today, that ratio has risen to 95 percent.

Michele Bachmann says she is proud never to have voted for raising the debt ceiling in the past.

The debt ceiling will be hit on or around May 16, the Treasury Department says.

Legislation to raise the debt ceiling now seems likely, giving the government headroom to operate until 2013.

The "debt ceiling" now stands at $14. 3 trillion, about $600 billion above the current level of the debt.

Administration officials think either could be part of a package that reduces the deficit over ten years and raises the debt ceiling.

The Senate, following the House vote, passed the deal on Tuesday to raise the $14. 3 trillion debt ceiling. It was passed by 74 votes to 26.

Sovereign debt will be in the news in America too: the government is due to hit its supposed debt ceiling on the same day.

That was before a budget for 2011 was passed or the debt ceiling debate and the resulting Budget Control Act of 2011 was signed into law.

What is the debt ceiling, and when do we hit it?

America's legal debt ceiling has been raised 74 times since 1962.

Here are some scenarios on how Congress could raise the debt ceiling.

The government has reached its legal debt ceiling of $14. 3 trillion.

The deal will raise the country's $14. 3tn debt ceiling by about $2. 4tn.

While the market is focused on the US debt ceiling, there are some worrying movements in the European credit markets.

Raising the debt ceiling simply gives our country the ability to pay the bills Congress has already racked up.

S. Democrats and Republicans has been to increase the government budget and public debt ceiling of an intense game. 17 U.

Liberals in his political base see him as a pushover who was outmanoeuvred at every turn in the standoff over the debt ceiling;

In a crucial late phase of the debt-ceiling talks, the president stood aside

Within weeks, federal borrowing will collide with the statutory debt ceiling, raising the possibility of default;

Some Republican lawmakers are opposed to raising the debt ceiling without tackling government spending,

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