Financial Markets » Andrew A http://www.appapillai.com/blog Random musings on global financial markets, technology, physics and geopolitics Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:58:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 China cements role as top creditor to US: Treasury http://www.appapillai.com/blog/2009/03/19/china-cements-role-as-top-creditor-to-us-treasury/ http://www.appapillai.com/blog/2009/03/19/china-cements-role-as-top-creditor-to-us-treasury/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:56:56 +0000 mano http://www.appapillai.com/blog/?p=797 The USA owes China $740B and the USA continues to beg China ad Japan buy more bonds in the next several years while we spend like a profligate drunkard.
 
Like Chavez (cash has run out), who is telling creditors that he will give them useless paper (like we do bonds) or turn on the printing presses and debase the US Dollar.

“We have lent huge amounts of money to the United States. Of course we are concerned about the safety of our assets.” - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao

If you were a banker, would you lend more the USA ?

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The question for McCain came down to what was more important: Standing on a weak base trying to beat Obama for the votes of the center with the legacy media pretty much giving up any pretense of objectivity (watch the fall debates for the tightly framed face shots of the elder senator), or trying to galvanize his base with a true conservative pick who also fires the imagination of working class and libertarian folks in the center?  Stipulating that he thought it was important to, you know: Win. The election.

Lex is a superb writer with great facts!

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“Now take a look at management. Coke’s got a first-year CEO in Muhtar Kent, and Cramer’s always said that you never invest with rookies. They make too many mistakes. But since Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway owns 200 million shares of Coke, Cramer’s willing to break the rules a bit. Pepsi has solid leadership in Indra Nooyi.”
(Emphasis added)

Pepsi CEO is Indra Nooyi, Indian origin, former financial type CFO. 
About Nooyi

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