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Power shifts East?

Power shifts East?

By Mark Bahnisch on August 7, 2011

Political and military power lags behind economic power, but the bill falls due. This could be the way the hegemon ends, not with a bang but with a Tea Party.

Posted in China, Economics, Europe, Featured, Politics, USA, War | Tagged austerity, China, Chinese Communist Party, debt ceiling crisis, Economics, equity markets, Eurozone, GFC, political economy, standard and poor's, Tea Party, US dollar, Xinhua | 41 Responses

Where the ratings agencies went wrong…

By Robert Merkel on September 17, 2008

This is a few months old, now, but ithe New York Times magazine has a pretty detailed account of some of the problems of the credit ratings agencies that helped lead to the global credit crunch. It’s easy, with the [...]

Posted in Economics | Tagged credit crunch, moody's, ratings agencies, standard and poor's | 11 Responses

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