WASHINGTON: A glimmer of hope for a breakthrough flickered in the fiscal impasse which has crippled Washington and threatened serious damage to the global economy.
After more than a week of deadlock, something positive emerged on Thursday when Republicans offered President Barack Obama a short term extension of the US government’s borrowing authority, so as to stave off a possible debt default.
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