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S&P downgrades European Union's credit rating
http://www.marketplace.org/ ^
| December 20, 2013
| Nigel Cassidy, Marketplace Morning Report
Posted on 12/20/2013 6:35:42 AM PST by Starboard
European leaders meeting in Brussels for a summit on banking rules got some bad news this morning. The Standard and Poor's credit rating agency announced that it is stripping the entire European Union of its AAA rating.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: downgrade; eu; sp
This downgrade probably won't get much coverage in the MSM.
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posted on
12/20/2013 6:35:42 AM PST
by
Starboard
To: Starboard
Looks like the Ukraine dodged a bullet
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posted on
12/20/2013 6:39:16 AM PST
by
kidd
To: Starboard
How long before some EU Eurocrat tries to make such actions illegal?
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posted on
12/20/2013 6:41:15 AM PST
by
bill1952
(Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
To: Starboard; cunning_fish
This is the unavoidable future of the EU.
Pinging the fish, another item that helps explain European - Eastern European current events.
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posted on
12/20/2013 6:41:25 AM PST
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Navy Patriot
(Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
To: bill1952
How long before some EU Eurocrat tries to make such actions illegal? Consider Obama already on it, he was for US bonds. S&P will rue the day.
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12/20/2013 6:43:45 AM PST
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Navy Patriot
(Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
To: SAJ
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posted on
12/20/2013 7:09:30 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: kidd
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posted on
12/20/2013 7:37:44 AM PST
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1rudeboy
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