To allow the spending bills to pass, but to then refuse to raise the debt ceiling, is equivalent to a family's deciding to refuse to pay the credit card bill while continuing to spend.
Insulation A house without the proper insulation in the crawl space, walls and ceiling is the equivalent of "standing out on your front porch and throwing dollars bills into the wind," Mr. Hockenberry said.
Its blue-green glass ceiling is the equivalent of a giant sunroof, capable of revealing your noggin to the ozone via a 5-square-foot hole.
The debt ceiling is the fiscal equivalent of the human appendix — a law with no discoverable purpose.
"It's a tell-tale sign of something that could reverberate if it spreads to other markets, and all the uncertainty with the debt ceiling is the functional equivalent of a tightening," Mr. Caron said.
Wolf views the debt ceiling as the legislative equivalent of a nuclear bomb the U.S. has aimed at itself, but its fallout could spread throughout the global economy.
Teams whose payrolls exceed a given threshold would be subject to a punitive tax and prevented from taking advantage of most exceptions to the cap, making it all but equivalent to a firm ceiling.
The judges rifled through a plastic sack filled with gold-colored coins, stainless steel pots, ceiling fans, lungis (the male equivalent of a south Indian sari) and, for particularly fearless contestants, no-name CD and DVD players.
On Thursday, House Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio revived a rule — breached in January — that any increase in the debt ceiling must be accompanied by equivalent spending cuts.
For example, when the ceiling value is 700,000 XOF (equivalent to $1600) for example, the coefficients obtained from the OLS regression for the overall sample, populations in Nouna town, and populations in Nouna villages are 37664 XOF, 77075 XOF, and 20354 XOF respectively.
