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Place Your Bets: When Will the U.S. Hit the Debt Ceiling?
Prediction markets add a crowdsourced opinion to the chaos of Washington.
Listen to the forecasters who have money on the line.
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Mark your calendar for a crisis. You can see this one coming: The government will run out of cash on Sept. 29 and cannot borrow more money unless Congress raises the debt ceiling.
This is a perennial crisis, and markets have a well-rehearsed pattern of worry followed by relief. But this time could be different because of the growing role of prediction markets.