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Investors are growing wary of the governmentâs ability to pay its debt in a timely fashion after Oct. 17, shifting the market for short-term Treasury bills and potentially having long-term effects.
Wall Street investors hope that a Federal Reserve under Janet L. Yellen will telegraph its intentions to the markets, particularly as it tapers efforts to kindle growth.
Washingtonâs traditionally cautious and pragmatic business lobby could slip into open warfare with the Tea Party faction of the Republican Party amid frustration over the crisis.
Shakespeareâs âJulius Caesarâ in an all-female British production, at St. Annâs Warehouse in Brooklyn.
Book critics are divided over the quality of Dave Eggersâs highly anticipated novel âThe Circle,â which has started a debate on whether technology is invading our lives.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 9, 2013, covering October 10, 2013.
Drake
Kings of Leon
Cher
Elton John
Jack Johnson
2013Scott Carpenter, American commander, pilot, and astronaut (born 1925)[â ]
Malcolm Scott Carpenter was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, astronaut, and aquanaut. He was one of the Mercury Seven astronauts selected for NASA's Project Mercury in April 1959. Carpenter was the second American to orbit the Earth and the fourth American in space, after Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, and John Glenn.
2013Jay Conrad Levinson, American author and educator (born 1933)[â ]
Jay Conrad Levinson was an American business writer, known as author of the 1984 book Guerrilla Marketing.
2013Sohei Miyashita, Japanese politician, Japanese Minister of Defense (born 1927)[â ]
Sohei Miyashita was a Japanese politician who served as Minister of Health and Welfare from 1998 to 1999, Director-General of the Environmental Agency from 1994 to 1995 and Director-General of the Defense Agency from 1991 to 1992.
2013Cal Smith, American singer and guitarist (born 1932)[â ]
Calvin Grant Shofner, known professionally as Cal Smith, was an American country musician, most famous for his 1974 hits "Country Bumpkin" and "It's Time to Pay the Fiddler".
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[â ]