Not Just Argentina: 11 Countries Near Bankruptcy -- USA Today
After years of bitter court battles with creditors, Argentina has defaulted on its debt, according to rating agency Standard & Poor's. After failing to come to an agreement with creditors from its previous default in 2001, the country missed necessary bond payments on July 31, triggering the default announcement. As of publication, other organizations, most notably the rating agency Moody's Investors Service and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, a derivatives trade group, have yet to release public statements confirming the default.
Argentina is not the only country that has struggled, or even failed, to pay its debt in recent years. It is hardly the only country with a severely impaired credit rating either. Alongside Argentina, Moody's currently lists 10 other countries with a rating of Caa1 or worse. A Caa1 rating is several notches below Ba1, which still carries substantial credit risk. Based on ratings from Moody's Investors Service, these are the 11 countries at risk of default.
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My Comment: Ukraine's debt crisis is the one that is on my radar screen. Everyone knows that the government in Kiev does not have the means to pay-off it's debts .... and even if they capture all the rebel stronghold's in the east .... the Ukraine government does not even have the means to keep the army deployed there for any lengthy period of time .... let alone having the necessary resources to rebuild the damage that has been inflicted after 3 months of fighting.
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WNU...any thought on the notion that Kiev is trying to get Russia to invade so as to assure a Western financial bailout? I for one have never understood why Kiev has been so aggressive in the East, as if they had no fear of Russian intervention.
Black Knight ... you are voicing what some in Moscow have been wondering about for the past few weeks. When the Ukraine government refused to listen to it's western allies to extend the ceasefire indefinitely a few weeks ago ... it caught everyone by surprise .... including me. Everyone knows that in the end a negotiated agreement will need to be reached .... so why inflame the situation by conducting this offensive. There are other factors involved .... and I suspect that financial aid and military assistance is an important part of this Ukraine strategy.
I also think it's something personal with the Obama people. Kiev gets a visit from an administration official and all of the sudden they're gung-ho, happened a couple of times. The US press has been unusually personal in it's attacks on Putin, this is a trademark of this administration.
The US press?
A.K.A. an arm of the Democrat party.
The mainstream press has it all wrong. For example, there is nothing wrong with David Gregory per se for his show's low ratings. It is a function of the bias (softball interviews for some and grillings for others) of the media companies and public reaction to it.
The media is just giving to Putin the treatment they usually give to Republicans IMHO.
"The media is just giving to Putin the treatment they usually give to Republicans IMHO." You've got it exactly right Aizino. That's what I meant by it being a trademark of this administration/media.
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