But China's reckless investment owes a lot to the heedless lending of its banks.

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No honest policymaker in the 1800s pretended that a superficial debt ceiling would possibly prevent the U.S. government from becoming a reckless deadbeat.

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It's an imperfect story of an often reckless young man who lived hard and as a U.S. senator drove a car off a bridge after a party, killing a young campaign aide.

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