How banks and the Fed are preparing for a US default – and the chaos expected to follow
- Written by John W. Diamond, Director of the Center for Public Finance at the Baker Institute, Rice University
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Kimimasa Mayama/Pool Photo via APConvening war rooms, planning speedy bailouts and raising house-on-fire alarm bells: Those are a few of the ways the biggest banks and financial regulators are preparing for a potential default on U.S. debt.
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