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Top of the Hour: Wall Street Questions Debt Deadline, Morning Headlines

The Takeaway
August 14, 2013

    Several Wall Street banks and a Washington research organization estimate that the federal government has enough cash to continue to pay its obligations after the August 2 deadline to raise the debt ceiling.

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