The world has never known a better fight promoter than Don King. From Muhammad Ali to George Foreman to Mike Tyson to Roy Jones, the man who gave us the Thrilla in Manila and the Rumble in the Jungle loves the business and loves a good fight.

Author and columnist Gordon Chang, on the other hand, has only promoted his books, but like King, he loves a good fight and thinks it's time for the U.S. to pick one with China.

"They might bluff, they bluster, the American business community will whine a little bit, but they (China) won't do anything, and the reason is they know they're tied too closely to us and in a trade war," he says. "We win -- because we have a large domestic market, the largest in the world, and they know that they need to sell things to us."

In fact, Chang says, we don't even need a trade war with China, we simply need to enforce the trade deals that have already been agreed upon. Take piracy, for example. Chang says a study by the International Trade Commission showed

Washington, DC, was chosen as the nation's capital as the result of a drunken compromise between Alexander Hamilton and James Madison at a dinner party hosted by Thomas Jefferson. So it's not inexplicable that politicians seem to be guided by mentally addled men acting like boisterous idiots. It's tradition.

For want of anyone on Wall St. able to make sense of the looming DC budget "crisis" beyond "it's a bunch of garbage being manufactured by self-motivated jackasses trying to boil down complicated issues to a stump-speech soundbite," Breakout invited the entirely rational editor-in-chief of Yahoo! Politics, Jane Sasseen, to add a bit of nuance to our view.

Specifically, what does it mean that Vice President Biden and representative Eric Cantor are being all weaselly with one another? Is the government really going to shut down on August 2 or is this, as most believe, a bunch of silly theatrics and bluffing? Isn't this a situation where some "leading" seems in order. And why is that