re: #329 Killgore Trout

Institutional investors and hedge fund managers are pretty smart about these things. Big money also buys big connections, I would guess the wall street big money folks already know what the end deal is going to look like and have positioned themselves to make money from it. Even a good article from responsible news outlets will sometimes bury a quote from an economist near the end of an article saying default is very unlikely and positing several end deal scenarios. Try some Christian Science Monitor articles. But hysteria sells so all the regular news orgs are sticking with the doomsday scenarios because it’s what people want to hear. It’s not going to happen.

And how many of them said that a shutdown was unlikely? That the damage done to the GOP brand would force them to take measures to avoid taking the blame? And that smart money was on there being no shutdown at all?