lately is the deadline that's upon us to raise the nation's debt ceiling is not really august 2. he has been trying to say that there's no reason to expect that the markets, the bond markets, stock market, etc., no reason to expect that they will wait until we actually default, until august 2, before reacting adversely. as we get closer and closer to the default date, just being too close to it without a resolution may, in fact, knock the economy off a cliff. at this point it could happen any moment. moody's warned last week the u.s. aaa credit score, which we had enjoyed for 94 year...