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Ed Morrissey HotAir.com 7/26/2011 Barack Obama has spent the last several weeks warning that a failure to raise the debt ceiling by the “drop-dead date” of August 2nd would cause a ruinous downgrade of Treasury bonds and an economic disaster for the US. However, the downgrade may come sooner than that, because the debt ceiling […] July 26th, 2011 | Tags: Barclays Capital Research, credit rating, debt ceiling, interest rates, Standard & Poor (S&P), Treasury bonds | Category: Banking and finance, Barack Obama, Federal spending, Taxes, Treasury Department | Comments are closed
BigFurHat iOwnTheWorld 7/23/2011 Also: GOP readies new debt ceiling plan; bill set for Sunday House Republicans are finishing work on a new proposal to resolve the standoff over the debt ceiling. The proposal, set to be finished and crafted into the form of a bill by Sunday, will be in two parts. The first […] July 24th, 2011 | Tags: campaign contributions, Charles Krauthammer, class warfare, cronyism, Cut Cap and Balance, debt ceiling, default, executive orders, Mark Levin, Neil Cavuto, Sen. Barbara Mikulski, Sen. Harry Reid, Speaker John Boehner, Standard & Poor (S&P), Treasury bonds, Wall Street | Category: 14th Amendment, Barack Obama, Cloward-Piven Strategy, Congress, Elections, Entitlements, Federal spending, Socialism, Taxes, Tea Parties, Treasury Department, Video | Comments are closed
Jim Meyers Newsmax.com 22 Jul 2011 Officials from Standard & Poor’s and other credit rating agencies told a gathering of Republicans this week that a default on the nation’s debt by the federal government could lead to a “death spiral” in the bond market. The meeting of more than 40 House Republicans on Thursday was […] July 22nd, 2011 | Tags: debt ceiling, Inflation, interest rates, recession, Standard & Poor (S&P), Treasury bonds, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner | Category: Barack Obama, Congress, Federal spending, Politics, Taxes | Comments are closed
Terence P. Jeffrey CNSNews.com 6/3/2011 (CNSNews.com) – China has dropped 97 percent of its holdings in U.S. Treasury bills, decreasing its ownership of the short-term U.S. government securities from a peak of $210.4 billion in May 2009 to $5.69 billion in March 2011, the most recent month reported by the U.S. Treasury. Treasury bills are […] June 6th, 2011 | Tags: federal debt, Treasury bonds | Category: China, Federal spending, Treasury Department | Comments are closed
Carl from Chicago Chicago Boyz 5/29/2011 In today’s Barron’s magazine there is an interview with Dennis Stattman of BlackRock Global Allocation called “Mixing It Up in an Uncertain World”. In this article he discusses his world view and his views on asset allocation. It is a great article and highly recommended. Dennis starts by explaining […] May 29th, 2011 | Tags: equities, gold, Treasury bonds | Category: Banking and finance, Economy | Comments are closed
Trevor Loudon New Zeal 4/17/2011 Commentator J.R. Nyquist on the recent BRIC Summit and a probable Russian/Chinese attack on the US dollar. The BRIC Summit, held on 14 April in Sanya (People’s Republic of China), brought together the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The key to understanding the summit may be […] April 18th, 2011 | Tags: BRIC Summit, global reserve currency, South Africa, Treasury bonds, U.S. Dollar | Category: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Federal Reserve, India, Russia, Treasury Department, United States | Comments are closed
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