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Sovereign Default

Small Business Borrowing Held Back In July By Debt Ceiling Crisis

Posted 10.31.2011 | Business
Read More: Sovereign Default, Interest Rates, Small Business, Debt Crisis, Double-Dip Recession, Paynet, Loans, Thomson Reuters/PayNet Small Business Lending Index, Federal Reserve, Economic Recovery, Business News

(Ann Saphir) - Small U.S. businesses in July moderated what had been a blistering pace of borrowing, held back by uncertainty over U.S. economic g...

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How China Stiffs Its Own Creditors

Ian Fletcher | Posted 07.23.2011 | Business
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Ian Fletcher

Either the People's Republic of China is the successor state to Nationalist China, in which case it must honor the latter's debts, or it isn't, in which case it is not the legitimate government of the country.

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Peak Debt

Daniel M. Cofall | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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Daniel M. Cofall

From our friends at the Wall Street Journal Sunday night, "In 2011, Social Security, Medicare and other entitlement programs will consume 60% of all f...

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DK Matai | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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DK Matai

Editor's Note: This post has been removed from the Huffington Post....

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