As the Treasury’s Oct. 17 debt ceiling deadline approaches, the prospects of a default—however unlikely—could be devastating in Europe, John Podesta, White House chief of staff for Bill Clinton, said on Monday.
“If the European regulators decided their European banks need to stress test against their exposure to U.S. default and begin to raise capital requirements in the European banks, it would be disastrous,” Podesta, current chairman of the Center for American Progress, speculated in a “Squawk Box” interview.
He argued there are precedents to making the banks prove they could withstand a U.S. default. “They did it with Italy. They did it with Portugal. They did it with Greece. Why not the United States? We seem to be as unable to control our politics as they were,” Podesta said.
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