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Moody's suggests eliminating debt ceiling

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The United States should eliminate the debt ceiling altogether, Moody's said in a Monday report.

"We would reduce our assessment of event risk if the government changed its framework for managing government debt to lessen or eliminate that uncertainty," Moody's analyst Steven Hess wrote in the report, first reported by Reuters.