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updated 10:20 p.m.EDT, Tue August 2, 2011

Obama: 'Manufactured crisis' could have been avoided

President Obama's signature averted what could have been an unprecedented default, but the debt-ceiling bill sets up a $1.5 trillion fight later in the year. FULL STORY

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