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2010-04-12 Economy

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Posted by Fred 2010-04-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Versus WMF > CHINA SHOULD DENY RUSSIA ACCESS TO MAJOR CHIN,NORTH KOREA FREEPORTS IFF RUSSIA OBSTRUCTS AND REFUSES TO ALLOW CHINESE INVESTMENT IN SAKHALIN. DEMAND VIETNAM DENY RUSSIA AND INDIA MARITIME RIGHTS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-04-12 00:30|| 2010-04-12 00:30|| Front Page Top

#2 And how other countries are faring with their National Debt, as percentage of their GDP.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2010-04-12 01:12|| 2010-04-12 01:12|| Front Page Top

#3 MARIANAS VARIETY > JAPANESE LAWMAKERS WANT FUTENMA RELOCATED TO TINIAN + JAPAN'S SDP EYES TINIAN.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-04-12 02:24|| 2010-04-12 02:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Now I understand why Obama is so anxious---he's in a race.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-04-12 03:39|| 2010-04-12 03:39|| Front Page Top

#5 UK's debt is wrong in that one. It's more like 2 Trillion.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2010-04-12 03:52|| 2010-04-12 03:52|| Front Page Top

#6 I actually hope that several nations go bankrupt before long, so that they can be economic laboratories. The trick is to stabilize the other at-risk countries so it doesn't create a domino effect.

If two or three countries went belly up at about three month intervals, it could turn into a "rolling" problem, which is always better than a simultaneous collapse.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-04-12 09:08|| 2010-04-12 09:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Does the US number include "off balance sheet" debt such as for Freddie and Fannie?

Posted by Fester Thaiger8930 2010-04-12 09:54|| 2010-04-12 09:54|| Front Page Top

#8 I doubt it, Fester. That's not "official" yet.

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2010-04-12 12:41|| 2010-04-12 12:41|| Front Page Top

#9 Japan economy at risk of 'bankruptcy'

Are you sure about this? Because back in the '80s there was a whole slew of books about Japan, Inc. and how this rising economic power was going to dominate the world economy.

I admit I've been a little out of touch since reading Ehrlich's The Population Bomb and The Club of Rome's Limits to Growth back then. I figured with the coming world-wide famine, resource shortage and general societal collapse, the best thing was to hide in the basement. For all I know, we have had the Zombie Apocalypse and the US is now an over-taxed socialist welfare state on the European model.

Posted by SteveS 2010-04-12 13:47|| 2010-04-12 13:47|| Front Page Top

#10 Oh, you're good, SteveS. You are good.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-04-12 14:49|| 2010-04-12 14:49|| Front Page Top

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