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US Long-Term Rating Lowered To 'AA+' Due To Political Risks, Rising Debt Burden; Outlook Negative
Standard & Poor's ^ | August 5 2011 | S & P

Posted on 08/05/2011 6:52:37 PM PDT by NoLibZone



TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: 882011; bondcollapse; currencywar; debt; downgrade; economy; lowdollar; monday; monday88; monday882011; mondayaugust8; ratings; ratingsdowngrade; tradewar
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To: Nip

the real test of this is gunna be Monday morning, if you can afford bead, buy it


101 posted on 08/05/2011 8:35:33 PM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (I STAND WITH ISRAEL!)
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To: KoRn
I fear it means interest rates on everything will be going up... Also if we have to pay more interest on the debt, there's less for paying off the principle - or paying for the military, social security etc.

Dems have bankrupted the nation - paying off every victim group they've got that votes their way...

102 posted on 08/05/2011 8:39:35 PM PDT by GOPJ (This “wussification” of America is an on-going phenomenon.- freeper rokkitapps)
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To: rwfromkansas

If you have an ARM, go out and buy Vasaline stock.


103 posted on 08/05/2011 8:40:28 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (I can't think of anything clever, so I'll just say, "Obama sucks.")
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To: _a_0_0_

I think you’re a TROLL.

The treasonist democrats have owned this since 2006, fool.


104 posted on 08/05/2011 8:40:28 PM PDT by Gator113 (Palin 2012, period.....)
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To: GeronL

I’ve got a link with Farber saying almost the same... I’ll see if I can get it.


105 posted on 08/05/2011 8:41:25 PM PDT by GOPJ (This “wussification” of America is an on-going phenomenon.- freeper rokkitapps)
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To: Texas Songwriter

They will get out of this the way they always have: get into a scape somewhere, start the draft, cull the herd, and cancel debts.

The world will be a very different place in 2020.


106 posted on 08/05/2011 8:45:12 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (I can't think of anything clever, so I'll just say, "Obama sucks.")
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To: Vermont Lt

Fixed luckily.


107 posted on 08/05/2011 8:50:30 PM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
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To: GeronL

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2758959/posts

Marc Faber


108 posted on 08/05/2011 8:53:26 PM PDT by GOPJ (This “wussification” of America is an on-going phenomenon.- freeper rokkitapps)
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To: GOPJ

I heard that China railway is more than $300+ Billion in debt, they built big empty cities to nowhere as “stimulus”. We know where that goes.


109 posted on 08/05/2011 8:55:32 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: NoLibZone; exg; Alberta's Child; albertabound; AntiKev; backhoe; Byron_the_Aussie; ...
From the press release:
When comparing the U.S. to sovereigns with 'AAA' long-term ratings that we view as relevant peers--Canada, France, Germany, and the U.K.--we also observe, based on our base case scenarios for each, that the trajectory of the U.S.'s net public debt is diverging from the others. Including the U.S., we estimate that these five sovereigns will have net general government debt to GDP ratios this year ranging from 34% (Canada) to 80% (the U.K.), with the U.S. debt burden at 74%. By 2015, we project that their net public debt to GDP ratios will range between 30% (lowest, Canada) and 83% (highest, France), with the U.S. debt burden at 79%. However, in contrast with the U.S., we project that the net public debt burdens of these other sovereigns will begin to decline, either before or by 2015.

110 posted on 08/05/2011 8:57:58 PM PDT by Clive
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To: GOPJ

He’s seems smart. :P


111 posted on 08/05/2011 8:58:01 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: _a_0_0_
We were handling it until January 20, 2009

If the economy is growing, we could take those $400 billion deficits. When the eonomy is falling we can't take trillion and a half deficits for sure.

112 posted on 08/05/2011 8:59:44 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: NoLibZone

YES WE CAAN! YES WE CAAN! YES WE CAAN!


113 posted on 08/05/2011 9:00:43 PM PDT by T. Buzzard Trueblood
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To: redgolum

“Don’t forget Bush, Clinton, Bush, etc. All the way back.

We didn’t get here over night.”

The buck stops (gets lowered) here on The Messiah’s desk. His name will be attached in the history books, maybe not in the herstory books.


114 posted on 08/05/2011 9:01:24 PM PDT by Rembrandt (.. AND the donkey you rode in on.)
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To: NoLibZone
"Remember, during the debt ceiling fight, S&P warned that there was a 50/50 chance of a downgrade if spending weren't cut by at least $4 trillion dollars."

HERE


115 posted on 08/05/2011 9:05:33 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Life as Nancy Pelosi knows & wants it, must end, Life As Nancy Knows it is to raise Debt 10% annualy)
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To: Publius

I’m worrying about the price of lead.


116 posted on 08/05/2011 9:11:45 PM PDT by GreatMan
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To: redgolum

It does not matter that we did not get here over night. There is enough blame to go around but the last 2-1/2 years has been the straw that finally broke the camel’s back.

What matters is that we are here and this mess has to be fixed. The spending has to stop and it will hurt.

The party is over. One way or another, it is over.


117 posted on 08/05/2011 9:15:52 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Half the people are below average.)
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To: Sequoyah101
"It does not matter that we did not get here over night. There is enough blame to go around but the last 2-1/2 years has been the (bale of) straw that finally broke the camel’s back."

118 posted on 08/05/2011 9:26:32 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen

“the real test of this is gunna be Monday morning, if you can afford bead, buy it..”

Maybe I will but how big is a bead, what does a bead cost and what does one do with a bead?


119 posted on 08/05/2011 9:31:32 PM PDT by Rembrandt (.. AND the donkey you rode in on.)
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To: Rational Thought

How about Down the Drain —————> DrainO


120 posted on 08/05/2011 9:31:41 PM PDT by not2worry (A credible message needs a credible messenger because charisma without character is catastrophe.)
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