Jan
16
2013
deficit
Jan
14
2013
Margulies depicts the January 2013 debt ceiling confrontation, the next manufactured crisis following the fiscal cliff deal, as Washington prepared for another round of borrowing-limit brinkmanship. The cartoon captures the exhausting and repetitive nature of America's serial fiscal crises.
Jan
9
2013
Heller depicts the controversial proposal to mint a $1 trillion platinum coin as a way to sidestep the debt ceiling in January 2013, a creative but constitutionally dubious idea championed by legal scholars during the standoff. The cartoon captures Washington's search for clever workarounds to self-imposed fiscal constraints.
Jan
8
2013
Cagle depicts the debt ceiling as a pogo stick that America bounces off repeatedly—raising it, forgetting about it, then bouncing off it again at the next crisis—satirizing a mechanism that was supposed to impose fiscal discipline but instead enables endless borrowing justified as temporary.
