Posted July 12, 2011

BPC Visiting Scholar Jay Powell, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Finance for President George H.W. Bush, is the author of our Debt Limit Analysis.

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Watch Powell in other recent appearances:

• "U.S. Faces `Bad Choices' on Deficits," Bloomberg, June 29, 2011
• "What Will Happen If There is No Deal on Debt?," Fox Business, June 30, 2011
• "Debt Ceiling: Fact from Fiction," FOX 5, July 1, 2011
• "Debt Default: What Happens Next?," C-SPAN, July 6, 2011
• "Crisis Mode," MSNBC, July 8, 2011
• "Risk of Failure on Debt Deal," CNBC, July 11, 2011
• "What Happens if Lawmakers Don't Reach Debt-Ceiling Deal by Deadline?," PBS NewsHour, July 13, 2011
• "Powell: No Left, Right Wing Version of Debt Facts," Fox Business, July 18, 2011
• "What Happens if US Defaults on its Bills," PBS Nightly Business Report, July 19, 2011
• "Tea Party’s Take on Debt-Ceiling Debate," Fox Business, July 19, 2011
• "Powell Says Gang of Six Plan `Exactly' What U.S. Needs," Bloomberg, July 20, 2011
• "Threat of Default," MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports, July 21, 2011
• "Who's At Default?," MSNBC's Hardball, July 21, 2011
• "How will a debt deal affect the economy?," CNN's American Morning, July 22, 2011
• "How will debt talks affect markets?," CNN's American Morning, July 25, 2011
• "The Real Debt Limit Deadline," Fox Business, July 28, 2011
• "Debt Ceiling 'Doomsday' Plan," ABC News, July 28, 2011
• "Obama's options - if there is no deal," CNN's Situation Room, July 28, 2011
• "What are the Consequences of a Government Default, Downgrade?" Fox Business, July 29, 2011
• "U.S. Debt Crisis," Sky News, July 29, 2011
• "Payment Priorities," CBS Evening News, July 30, 2011
• "Powell: Super Congress 'too big to fail'," CNN's American Morning, August 1, 2011
• "Debt deal fallout," MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports, August 1, 2011
• "Treasury's Plan to Pay Debt," C-SPAN, August 1, 2011
• "U.S. Deficit Super-Committee; Credit Rating," Bloomberg, August 2, 2011
• "U.S. Debt Deal," Sky News, August 2, 2011
• "Who in DC has power to create jobs?," CNN's American Morning, August 18, 2011
• "Can Obama's plan to tax rich work?," CNN's American Morning, September 19, 2011
• "Unemployment Rate: 9.1%," CNN's American Morning, October 7, 2011
• "Obama's Bill Only a Temporary Fix," Fox Business, October 14, 2011
• "Is the economy finally looking up?," CNN's American Morning, October 28, 2011
• "If a Big Bank Failed Tomorrow, What Would Happen?," Fox Business, October 31, 2011
• "Default in Greece could damage European Union," MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports, November 3, 2011

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