Image uploaded from a quicklink (Image by Unknown Owner) Details DMCA | Investors are spending $4.8 billion to hedge against the possibility that credit rating agencies will downgrade U.S. debt--or worse, that the U.S. actually will default. Doomsayers predict these and other dire consequences if Congress fails to act by August 2 to raise the nation's debt ceiling. {Pictured is the National Debt Clock.} |