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by Josh Marshall
06.09.11 | 10:55 am

So what could the federal government defaulting on its debt mean to you? And how much could even a what’s now being called a ‘technical’ default cost? Experts could say that even a brief default on its debt could cost the US government as much $1.2 trillion in additional debt over the next decade.

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