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FBN’s Liz MacDonald on the numerous times the debt ceiling has been raised, under both Republican and Democratic Presidents.
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Points now that the debt ceiling has been raised the question on the street is.
To me if indeed it was like tunnels.
-- in fact Moody's raised that question in within the past month saying you know all the partisan by -- exactly partisan bickering over it.
Really and you know -- a lot of volatility problems for the markets in general.
The losing -- raising the debt ceiling the issue of raising it is really a bipartisan problem let's take a look at how many times has raised under President Reagan.
Seventeen times under President Reagan.
Under President Clinton and was raised six times under President Bush was raised seven times.
And under -- Obama three times and increase in the debt ceiling since 1940.
A 106 times the only president who did not raise that debt ceiling was president Harry Truman a Democrat back to -- -- OK thank you very much we.
