Forget Thursday - the damage is done.
By threatening default for the second time in two years, the Tea Party fanatics and their GOP lackeys in the House and Senate have already brought into question (if not destroyed) the notion of US securities as the world's 'ultimate safe investment' (which is probably the one true example of American exceptionalism).
The Chinese editorial calling for a 'de-Americanization' of the world economy is certainly an indication of what's in store.
No matter what the outcome, unless this debt-ceiling farce is done away with in its entirety, once and for all, the rest of the world will adjust their expectations and make their investments and raise their borrowing rates and generally conduct their business and economies with as little involvement from the US as possible.
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Obama IS Hitler reincarnated - with a tan!! He's been planning this all along11
Oh Noes!1! Save are country Sister Sarah!!1
These tea bag dumb asses haven't figured out that their screwing around playing games with our economy would have a ripple effect around the world and would lead to possible collapse of the dollar on the global market,I'm not an economist but even I could see this train wreck coming, And these fools are in the tea party crazy train running without a conductor taking us all right on over the cliff. 
...it's just that the economic damage is already done.
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