The Debt Limit Faceoff

Hello, I’m Chris Anstey, a senior editor for economic policy in Boston. Today we’re looking at the timeline for the US debt-limit debate. Send us feedback and tips to ecodaily@blooomberg.net or tweet to @economics. And if you aren’t yet signed up to receive this newsletter, you can do so here.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s new warning over the need for Congress to raise the federal debt limit has kick-started the next stage in what many expect to be a damaging partisan showdown over the issue.