U.S. regulators have long insisted that financial institutions have contingency plans for potential crises. A potential crisis now looms: an unprecedented default on Treasury debt.
Yet the Biden administration has undermined contingency planning by refusing to say how it would respond.
The government spends more than it brings in from tax revenue and must continuously borrow to cover the difference, causing the national debt to rise over time. But
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