

Jason Furman, Aetna professor of the practice of economic policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. GuestsĬlaudia Grisales, congressional correspondent for NPR. Today, On Point: What’s the path forward? We hear lessons from America's last debt ceiling crisis.

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