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Podcast: The Conversation with Dasha Burns
Episode: Push it to the (debt) limit
Description: What actually happens if the nation defaults on its debt? Planes fall out of the sky, the streets run red with blood — OK, not literally. But the reality could be economic catastrophe: "Market chaos, economic chaos, all for absolutely no good reason," explains POLITICO’s Ben White. After a week of debt-ceiling drama in D.C., Ben joins Playbook co-author Eugene Daniels to unpack the partisan fights, doomsday hypotheticals and one of the most absurd twists so far: a trillion-dollar coin.Eugene Daniels is a co-author of POLITICO Playbook.Ben White is chief economic correspondent for POLI...