Financial Markets » internantional http://www.appapillai.com/blog Random musings on global financial markets, technology, physics and geopolitics Mon, 14 Jun 2010 03:32:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 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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PRESS RELEASES
Release Date: 4.10.08
Contact:
 Kirk Monroe
(202) 496-3269

BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE RELEASES FIRST QUARTER 2008 CEO ECONOMIC OUTLOOK SURVEY

The press announcement says :

“Despite the current downturn in the U.S., this quarter’s results suggest that member CEOs have a steady outlook for their businesses over the next six months, with expectations for sales, capital expenditures and employment all remaining virtually unchanged,” said Harold McGraw III, chairman of Business Roundtable and chairman, president and CEO of The McGraw-Hill Companies. “The CEOs surveyed preside over our country’s largest companies, all of which are actively engaged in the international economy. Today, more than ever, these companies’ outlooks are bolstered by the strong demand for U.S. goods and services from around the world. Additionally, the Fed’s recent actions to inject more liquidity into the system are expected to have a positive impact in the months ahead.” 

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