Debates about government debt limits are like Kabuki theater without the screen.  The politics of the thing are so transparent and the outcome so preordained that Anthony wonders if there is anything interesting about this year’s version.  Well nothing is normal in Washington when the margins are so unprecedentedly narrow.  So maybe the sky does fall this time and our economy collapses.  Just in case, we look at far out ideas and one that maybe is sneaky brilliant.  In the mailbag this week, how to interview a liar.

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