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USA News, Aug 11, 2011


Analysis: Debt deal, downgrade add to view of waning U.S. power
Reuters
"Anybody looking at the United States today would have to say, 'Well, compared to what?' Britain is burning. Europe is in the middle of a financial crisis that is considerably more serious than the American. Japan has been in a stagnant situation for ...
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Reuters
US downgrade feeds political blame game: analysts
Xinhua
Meanwhile, a Gallup/USA Today poll on Tuesday found that 21 percent of the respondents said most members of Congress deserve re-election-- the lowest percentage Gallup has found in its 20-year history of asking that question. The poll was conducted in ...
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US standing unchanged but won t default on debt YV Reddy
Moneycontrol.com
The Obama administration and the FOMC have embarked upon talks to appease the markets and save the nation from being pushed into a repeat of 2008's recession. While investors are on a hold-and-watch today post the panic-selloff, the markets seem to be ...
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Poor Judgement and Partisan Attacks Trump Sound Policy
The International News Magazine
Speaking directly to the White House press corps and projecting his remarks to broader publics,Obama asserted that "markets will rise and fall, but this is the United States of America, and no matter what some agency may say, we always have been and ...
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Many tasks ahead for new US ambassador
China Daily
The US government has recently lifted its debt ceiling in order to avoid a default, but Chinese officials and economists still expressed concern about the uncertainty in the US economy. Locke has plenty of work to do as the new US ambassador to China, ...
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China Daily
Sometimes Enough Just Isn't Enough
Forbes
I have become an active reporter with Forbes, The Wall Street Journal Market Watch, Fortune, Business Insider, USA Today, Christian Science Monitor, New York Daily News, Boston Globe and others. The author is a Forbes contributor. ...
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Poll: Most say US is on the wrong track
msnbc.com
Obama was viewed negatively by 42 percent as a result of the debt deal, while House Speaker John Boehner, the top US Republican, was viewed negatively by 37 percent. A USA Today/Gallup poll this week suggested possible evidence of an anti-incumbent ...
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Elias: New 'can't do' spirit moves primary to June
Ventura County Star
Jerry Brown, one that got little attention because it was drowned out by news coverage of the possibility America might default on its national debt and the subsequent downgrading of the USA'scredit. That move came when next year's California ...
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Next low-wage haven: USA
Facing South
Add it all up, says BCG, and "China will no longer be the default low-cost manufacturing location." Actually, employers deciding where to produce the next generation of widgets may not need to look to the South. Plenty of factory jobs in Northern ...
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Toomey selected for new debt 'super committee'
Pennsylvania Ave. (blog)
Toomey also voted against raising the debt ceiling, thereby endangering the USA with default - although knowing it would pass anyway, he was probably only showing his Tea Party nutbags that theoretically, at least, he was voting the way they wanted him ...
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USA Deficit Spiral
Live Trading News
In order to avert an unprecedented default crisis, the White House and the Republicans hammered out a deal at the end of last month to increase the country's legal borrowing limit and reduce the public debt in the next 10 yrs. ...
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Tentative deal would raise debt limit by $2.4 trillion ... - USA Today
Neither President Obama nor congressional leaders called the tentative deal ideal ... cut future government spending and avert an unprecedented default. ... Latest posts from USA TODAY The Oval blog. 3:33 PM Obama: 'We will press on' in ...
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