Tuesday, April 19, 2011

S&P Downgrades USA Debt, While Gold Flirts With $1,500/oz

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An 'Oh Please!' Moment: Is S&P Running Interference for the Right to Help Crush Social Security and Medicare?
by:

Dave Lindorff

Today’sbreathless anxiety-inducing headline was that Standard & Poors, the rating agency, has issued a “negative outlook” warning on US sovereign debt, claiming that the US, in comparison with other countries with a top AAA credit rating, has "very large budget deficits and rising government indebtedness and the path to addressing these is not clear to us". S&P warned that there was a “a one in three chance that the US could lose its AAA rating in two years because of its mounting debt.”   LINK...

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