The cash balance in the governments account took a sharp dive on Monday. It started the day with $139.944 billion, had revenues of $156.754 billion and expenditures of $209.267 billion, ending the day with just $87.431 billion.
The market doesn’t appear to have cared very much, yet.
Just wait to see what happens as the x-date approaches.
(Perhaps nothing, then a sharp everything.)
John Moralessays
To point out the obvious to outsiders:
Once again, the United States faces a self-imposed political and economic impasse over the debt limit. Of the handful of economies to adopt debt limits around the world, the United States is exceptional in its perennial political brinkmanship over the debt ceiling.
xohjoh2n says
The market doesn’t appear to have cared very much, yet.
Just wait to see what happens as the x-date approaches.
(Perhaps nothing, then a sharp everything.)
John Morales says
To point out the obvious to outsiders:
(https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/econographics/the-us-debt-limit-is-a-global-outlier/)