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Sounds like something a totalitarian government would do. Obama's henchmen criticized S&P for downgrading the U.S. but have not proposed banning sovereign ratings. Yet.
1 posted on 10/20/2011 2:00:37 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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‘Shooting the messenger’ is a time-honored European tradition....


2 posted on 10/20/2011 2:02:08 PM PDT by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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This should clearly inspire confidence.


3 posted on 10/20/2011 2:03:48 PM PDT by EEGator
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That worked so well last time.


5 posted on 10/20/2011 2:13:57 PM PDT by SnuffaBolshevik ("The trouble with internet quotations is that you don't know if they are true"-Abraham Lincoln.)
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How do they propose to implement this? What are they going to do to stop Moody’s or S&P from issuing a rating in spite of their little diktat? Will the send Eurozone troops to NYC?

I really hope they try this. I really do. It’ll collapse Euroweenie credit ratings over night.


8 posted on 10/20/2011 3:08:43 PM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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Lying always works.


9 posted on 10/20/2011 3:57:29 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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Lets not fix the problem, lets just not talk about it and it will go away.

lol


11 posted on 10/20/2011 5:07:06 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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I think S&P, Moodys, Fitch, etc. should issue a press release stating that they will not longer rate sovereign junk bonds from EU countries.


12 posted on 10/20/2011 7:21:11 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (There's a pill for just about everything ... except stupid!)
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That these people can even talk like this with a straight face shows they are doomed.

This is like trying to reason with my bipolar SIL. She believes that if you pretend something isn’t there, it ceases to be there.

The leaders of the EU are mentally ill. And they are sucking everything into their alternate universe.


13 posted on 10/20/2011 8:31:20 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there)
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“EU Considers Temporary Bans on Sovereign Ratings”

Just a little more overt, on what’s already happened worldwide. Oh how they’d love to have a “temporary ban” on the U.S. vote on the upcoming elections. The vote, the only thing holding them back now.


14 posted on 10/20/2011 8:49:44 PM PDT by Varsity Flight
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15 posted on 10/21/2011 11:57:44 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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