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Debt ceiling crisis can still be avoided

We still expect Congress to avoid a partial government shutdown at the start of next month and to raise the debt ceiling before a full-blown crisis develops in late October. But the negotiations over the latter will go down to the wire, which always leaves scope for a miscalculation by one side or the other.

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