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		<title>AAA Rating Needs AAA Towing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Economy and Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinese and US dollars]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If it wasn&#8217;t already clear, it is now. We&#8217;re not in a free market economy. The behind the scenes manipulation that had to take place to keep AAA credit ratings for companies involved in the sub-prime multi-vehicle high speed crash is shamefully obvious. The net result may include a little less short term pain, but [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>If it wasn&#8217;t already clear, it is now. We&#8217;re not in a free market economy. The behind the scenes manipulation that had to take place to keep AAA credit ratings for companies involved in the sub-prime multi-vehicle high speed crash is shamefully obvious. The net result may include a little less short term pain, but among other long term results, the unquestionable knowledge that the entire financial system can be fixed like a low rent undercard will undermine any small remaining bit of trust that even the most gullible economist or citizen might have in said system. </strong></p>
<p><strong>Stay tuned over the next decade as China slowly liquidates its dollars (Chinese dollar torture if you will) and the Sovereign Wealth Funds buy up a good chunk of your backyard, and then move on to your home proper.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Oh, and get a wheelbarrow instead of a wallet to transport cash to the grocery store.</strong></p>
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