{"id":6787,"date":"2017-07-31T20:15:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T20:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/07\/31\/debt-another-big-congressional-battle-on-the-horizon\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:57:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:57:40","slug":"debt-another-big-congressional-battle-on-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/debt-another-big-congressional-battle-on-the-horizon\/","title":{"rendered":"Debt: Another big congressional battle on the horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In anticipation of the Congressional Budget Office&#8217;s report on the country\u2019s debt ceiling, &#8220;Marketplace&#8221; correspondent Adriene Hill talks to Furman University economics professor Jason Jones. Jones offers his take on the Treasury Department&#8217;s &#8220;extraordinary measures&#8221; and how the accounting tricks help keep the government&#8217;s borrowing under the spending limit. Hear his comments on &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/2017\/06\/29\/economy\/debt-another-big-congressional-battle-horizon\">Marketplace Morning Report<\/a><\/strong>,&#8221; a production of American Public Media.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In anticipation of the Congressional Budget Office&#8217;s report on the country\u2019s debt ceiling, &#8220;Marketplace&#8221; correspondent Adriene Hill talks to Furman University economics professor Jason Jones. Jones offers his take on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":6661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,46,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-economics","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}