Eight
Days, Default or New debt ceiling
Eight days left to
the debt ceiling deadline in U.S. the ghost of financial crises clearly
appeared however the debt ceiling must be increased or the strongest economy
will fail to meet obligations, “$16.7 Trillion the debt ceiling will be reached
within the next nine days” experts said.
The White House says
it wants a "clean" debt limit increase and that must happen on Oct.
17, 2013. That’s the day Treasury
Secretary Jacob Lew says the United States would run out of borrowed money,
putting the government in uncharted territory and creating the prospect of a
first-ever default.
Washington's
attention is turning to the debt limit even as it enters its second full week
of a partial shutdown caused by Congress' inability to pass a spending bill.
Although most of the 350,000 civilian Defense employees are going back to work
this week, more than half a million federal workers remain furloughed. The
House voted Saturday to give all federal workers back pay, but the Senate has
yet to schedule a vote on the measure.
Creditors’
numbers
Japan and China, the
biggest foreign debtors of the U.S. expressed concern over the risk of a U.S.
default as President Barack Obama and Republicans remain locked in a fiscal
stand-off.
Japan must consider
the impact of a default on its Treasury holdings, even as the U.S. will
probably avoid a fiscal crisis; the U.S. should prevent a default.
China owns $1.28
trillion in Treasuries and Japan has $1.14 trillion, according to the U.S.
Treasury Department. Any shift in asset allocation by major holders of the
securities could push up U.S. interest rates and cause swings in global
currency markets.
Creditors must be
aware that the absolute value of those debt holdings would decline. Nations
such Japan and China that have a large proportion of dollar-denominated
reserves need to think about this.
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