The skies over Andrews Air Force Base were choked with leaden winter clouds as the Gulfstream taxied onto the private tarmac at dawn.
Washington, D.C., was in a state of quiet, hysterical paralysis.
By 6:00 AM on Wednesday, the global news networks had broadcast the unimaginable: the United States Department of the Treasury’s ten-year debt auction had failed to attract sufficient primary dealer bids for the first time in modern history. A liquidity black hole had opened at the core of the Western financial system, threatening to freeze interbank lending across thirty nations before the opening bell in New York.
A black government SUV escorted our three-vehicle motorcade down Pennsylvania Avenue, past police checkpoints and clusters of silently gathering journalists shivering outside the
