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Carol Platt Liebau Townhall 1/22/2014 In August 2011, three days after ratings agency Standard & Poor’s downgraded the triple-A credit rating of the United States, Harold McGraw — chairman of McGraw-Hill Financial — says something pretty unpleasant happened to him. From Bloomberg: In his court statement, McGraw, 65, said Geithner called him on Aug. 8, […] January 22nd, 2014 | Tags: 'The Chicago Way', credit rating, Harold McGraw, intimidation, McGraw-Hill Financial, Standard & Poor (S&P), Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner | Category: Barack Obama, Department of Justice, Politics, Treasury Department | Comments are closed
AFP via France24 17 October 2013 A Chinese ratings agency downgraded its US sovereign credit rating Thursday despite Washington’s resolution of the debt ceiling deadlock, warning that fundamentals for a potential default remained “unchanged”. prednisone 10 mg tablet price Dagong lowered its ratings for US local and foreign currency credit from A to A-, maintaining […] October 17th, 2013 | Tags: credit rating, Dagong Global Credit Rating Co., gross domestic product, U.S. Dollar | Category: Federal spending | Comments are closed
The Government’s economic strategy has been dealt a serious blow after a leading credit ratings agency downgraded UK debt on its expectation that growth will “remain sluggish over the next few years”. James Hurley The Telegraph [UK] 22 Feb 2013 Moody’s announced on Friday night that it had cut the Government’s bond rating one notch […] February 22nd, 2013 | Tags: British Sterling, credit rating, George Osborne, Moody's Investors Service, national debt | Category: Economy, Great Britain, Socialism | Comments are closed
William Baldwin Forbes 11/25/2012 Thinking about buying a house? Or a municipal bond? Be careful where you put your capital. Don’t put it in a state at high risk of a fiscal tailspin. Eleven states make our list of danger spots for investors. They can look forward to a rising tax burden, deteriorating state finances […] November 25th, 2012 | Tags: "Death spiral state", credit rating, investments, makers vs. takers, Medicaid, public employees, Victor Davis Hanson | Category: Alabama, Connecticut, Economy, Hawai'i, Illegal Immigration, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, Taxes, unfunded liabilities | Comments are closed
Reuters 11/17/2012 Tens of thousands of people, joined by Catholic church leaders, marched in cities across France on Saturday to protest against government plans to legalize same-sex marriage. Demonstrators, holding banners with slogans such as “don’t touch civil marriage”, “all born from the union of a man and a woman” and “one father + one […] November 23rd, 2012 | Tags: adoption, Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, Catholic Church, credit rating, culture, Francois Hollande, gay marriage, homosexuality, Lyon, Marseille, national identity, Paris, Pope Benedict XVI, Toulouse | Category: France, Health Care, Islam, Medicine, Politics, Progressives, religion, Socialism | Comments are closed
Julie Crawshaw and Forrest Jones Moneynews 28 Mar 2012 The Federal Reserve is propping up the entire U.S. economy by buying 61 percent of the government debt issued by the Treasury Department, a trend that cannot last, Lawrence Goodman, a former Treasury official and current president of the Center for Financial Stability, writes in a […] April 11th, 2012 | Tags: budget deficits, credit rating, Egan-Jones, monetizing national debt, RIA Novosti, Treasury bonds | Category: Barack Obama, Censorship, Economy, Federal Reserve, Federal spending, Media accountability, Russia, Treasury Department, United States | Comments are closed
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