Janet L. Yellen: “The failure to raise the debt ceiling would cause an economic and financial catastrophe.”

We have degraded the Kremlin's ability to replace more than 9,000 pieces of heavy military equipment that it has lost on the battlefield.

this has never been tried. It has been rejected by all past Treasury secretaries.

Historically, it is a high level, but on the other hand, interest rates, real interest rates have moved down substantially in recent decades.

Those who were responsible for the failure of a bank should not be profiting when stockholders and investors in the bank are taking--forced to take losses.