Obama is talking to Wall Street about the Government Default as in (the end of the F'n world) being a very real possibility. We'll see what that does to the markets starting in Asia in just a couple of hours. Is he really talking about a Pale Horse who's rider said unto him, "Come and see"....
Maybe we're just talking about the Federal Reserve going all QE666 and buying up all the outstanding dollar denominated debt on the planet. They could actually do that. It would put an awful lot of cash into circulation.... I'm not sure what that would really do.... Since all that cash would be in only a relatively few hands, maybe nothing would happen.
In the 'real news' today, the production company that was paying Michael Jackson's doctor to make him into a zombie, you know, just like in the video 'Thriller'. They beat the liability rap in a marathon, as in (shamble along pursuing the living until they're exhausted and out of ammunition) a 'wrongful death' civil suit brought by the guardians of Jackson's kids.