Debt-Ceiling Deja Vu Could Sink Economy

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May 29 (Bloomberg) -- Europe is crumbling. China isslowing. The Federal Reserve is dithering. Yet the biggestthreat to the emerging U.S. economic recovery may be Congress.

John Boehner, the leader of the House Republicans, haspromised yet another fight with the White House over the debtceiling -- the limit Congress has placed on the amount thefederal government can borrow.