‘This is an especially inopportune time to have a political debate over the debt limit,’ warns economist Mark Zandi

Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, sounded an alarm before a Senate panel on Thursday over Washington’s ongoing debt-ceiling standoff, while a conservative expert testified that most Americans want President Joe Biden to talk with Republicans about some reductions in government spending.

“This is an especially inopportune time to have a political debate over the debt limit,” Zandi told the Senate Budget Committee as it held a hearing on the Republican-run House’s debt-ceiling bill.

“Recession…