Voice of America: Understanding the Scope of the US Debt Ceiling Dec 6th 2012, 01:21 Voice of America | Voice of America is an international news and broadcast organization serving Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, the Middle East and Balkan countries | | Understanding the Scope of the US Debt Ceiling Dec 5th 2012, 23:56 No discussion on the fiscal cliff would be complete without first taking a look at the U.S. debt. But for many - talk of U.S. debt and the debt ceiling is often abstract because it lacks scale. It's not some architectural feature unique to Washington. The debt ceiling is a borrowing limit - passed by Congress in 1917 to fund the war effort. Back then, the ceiling was slightly more than $11 billion. Economist Richard Rahn, a senior fellow at the CATO Institute, said the idea was to ... | | | | |
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