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August 6th, 2011 | 
Author: Did S&P Downgrade Your Bank? | The Daily Capitalist
dailycapitalist.com11/30/11
Did S&P Downgrade Your Bank? By Jeff Harding, on November 29th, 2011. S&P issued new ratings for the world's 37 largest banks. Was your bank upgraded or downgraded? As a public service, I have included the entire list. Standard …
S&P: No U.S. Credit Rating Downgrade Despite Supercommittee Fail
www.huffingtonpost.com11/22/11
WASHINGTON — Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's says it will not downgrade the U.S. government's credit rating because a Congressional committee failed to come up with a plan to trim deficits by at least $1.2 trillion …
As you most likely already know, the U.S. had its AAA credit rating downgraded for the first time by S&P, which slammed the nation’s political process and said lawmakers failed to cut spending enough to reduce record deficits.
If you already know the bad news, but don’t know exactly the reasons for the downgrading then maybe watch the vid!
Aug 5, 2011 David Beers, the London-based managing director of sovereign credit ratings at Standard & Poor’s, talks with Bloomberg’s Tom Keene about S&P’s downgrade of the U.S. credit rating.
It’s a pity that David Beers stammers and says so many “ahs”, but it’s perhaps understandable because he’d never been in such a hot-seat before.
Just imagine the heat that he’s getting!
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Marco Rubio | Debt | Weak economy, high debt require immediate …
dailycaller.com6/21/11
If we don't act now, our children and grandchildren will never forgive us.
Marco Rubio's Debt-Ridden Plan.
prospect.org7/15/10
Like most Republicans, Florida Senate hopeful Marco Rubio has taken to attacking President Obama on debt and deficits. Rubio hit Obama on the deficit in a June interview with Newsmax, and on the "Cutting Government …
Senator Rubio is certainly impressive, and I can quite easily imagine him being asked to be a running mate by either Perry or Romney if one of them wins the primaries.
The video below has been edited down and hopefully contains the highlights of Sen Rubio’s address to the Senate.
The full text of Sen. Rubio’s speech is available for download.
