When Washington’s summer debt-ceiling brinkmanship spurred ratings agency Standard & Poor’s to take the once-unimaginable step of stripping the USA of its top-tier AAA credit rating, financiers started asking whether the theoretical risk of default would hit the cost of borrowing.

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