Today news
About the same in other media
Here’s What Treasury, Fed Might Do in a Debt Ceiling Crisis
Reading now: 595
wsj.comU.S. regulators have long insisted that financial institutions have contingency plans for potential crises. A potential crisis now looms: an unprecedented default on Treasury debt. Yet the Biden administration has undermined contingency planning by refusing to say how it would respond.
The government spends more than it brings in from tax revenue and must continuously borrow to cover the difference, causing the national debt to rise over time. But Congress sets a statutory ceiling on that debt, currently $31.4 trillion, which was reached in January. Treasury is using accounting maneuvers to meet its bills without breaching the ceiling, but it is expected to exhaust those options as early as June or possibly later in the summer.
Read more on wsj.comAbout this in other media
What is the US debt ceiling and what will happen if it is not raised? theguardian.com /1 year ago
White House timidity on the debt ceiling is infuriating. What is it afraid of? theguardian.com /1 year ago
US economy inches toward default amid Biden-McCarthy debt ceiling deadlock theguardian.com /1 year ago
Show more
The website finance-news.co is an aggregator of news from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can send a complaint on the news if you find it unreliable.
