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Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: How Would Raising Debt Ceiling Impact U.S. Bond Market?

Updated: April 13 2011,
Author: barrel fan
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Budget Deficit, Budget Deficits and Public Debt, Credit, Demand, Financial Markets, Interest
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As part of his series on Making Sen$e of financial news, economics correspondent Paul Solman reports on how raising the debt ceiling again would affect the U.S. bond market.

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