Well, it didn’t look too serious at first, but it’s now headed for 100,000. At what number does this get the attention of foreign holders of US Treasury bonds? At what number do they start dumping them—slowly at first, but then with increasing seriousness, then with panic (since, presumably, seceding states wouldn’t honor their portion of the US debt)? Could a little ole petition from Texas crash the US dollar? Could a crashed dollar then lead to real secession? History is littered with less probable black swans than this.
For want of a nail the shoe was lost. . .
77,400 now.
Which may seem like alot, but there are 6 million people in the Houston/surrounding areas alone.
This is all very interesting, though.