By Ellen Brown [T]hreatening to default should not be a partisan issue. In view of all the hazards it entails, one wonders why any responsible person would even flirt with the idea. ~ Alan S. Blinder, Princeton professor of economics, former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve A game of Russian roulette is being played with the national debt ceiling. Fire the wrong chamber of the gun, and the result could be the second Great Depression. The first Great Depression led to totalitarian dictatorships, war to consolidate power and concentrations of capital in the hands of a…
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