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Last week Lawrence H. Tribe, the professor of constitutional law at Harvard, wrote in The New York Times that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s suggestion that Section 4 of the 14th Amendment, known as the “public debt clause,” provides “false hope of a legal answer that obviates the need for a real solution.”

Week by week and month by month it has become increasingly clear that the suggestion by Jim Rogers, the legendary investor and co-founder of the Quantum Fund, that Geithner was a poor choice for the job because he “doesn’t know what he’s doing” was prescient.

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