Congress hits snooze on the debt ceiling

Even the more modest 194,000 gain in non-farm payrolls in September is “decent” enough for the Fed to announce at next month’s meeting that it will begin tapering its asset purchases, especially now the threat of a government debt default has been pushed back.

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