US debt ceiling

And now we’re going to hear about the "Debt Ceiling" for months…  Let’s get two things straight from the beginning of this conversation: A): we spend too much money on the wrong things in our country, and B): the Debt Ceiling is a made-for-TV fantasy that was passed into law to make old-school, Gold-Standard luddites feel better. It’s all a made-up crisis.  For the sake of history, let’s review. The…