Debt ceiling: what it means for you

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Edward Jones Financial Advisor Alison Gilman Aquino discusses the debt ceiling. It's something the president and Congress would raise every so often, to pay the government's bills. Recently, if Congress voted not to raise the debt ceiling, the government would have defaulted on their debt. As a result of all of the debt ceiling debate, financial markets were disrupted and volatile.