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Clearing the Air on the Debt Limit: Platinum Coins, the Fourteenth Amendment, and More
Congressional Research Service · 2021-11-10 · Reports · 16,090 words · PDF available
As Congress considers how to reconcile rising federal debt levels and the debt limit, discussions about the role of the debt limit among Members of Congress, researchers, and the media promise to beco...
Stablecoins: Background and Policy Issues
Congressional Research Service · 2021-11-10 · Resources · 1,547 words · PDF available
Stablecoins are digital assets generally designed to maintain a stable value by linking the value to a national currency or other reference assets. The term stablecoin does not affirm that a particula...
Federal Support for the Municipal Bond Markets
Congressional Research Service · 2021-11-10 · Resources · 1,664 words · PDF available
Introduction Municipal bonds are debt securities issued by state, city, county, and other nonfederal government agencies to pay for capital projects, such as highways, airports, sewers, bridges, schoo...