The bank daddy of all banks is supposedly independent but are they really the us treasury was supposed to be independent yet they got bullied into trumps agenda the fed is supposedly an independent Government Agency yet powell bowed to political pressure and now finds himself playing defense this is worrisome if theres supposedly independent bodies are so easily influenced. And one of the worlds biggest Credit Rating agencies downgraded the hong kong Sovereign Rating on friday as protests and riots continue inflicting long lasting damage to International Perceptions of the quality and such from this of of hong kongs rule of law and its Business Environment which unexpectedly dropped the bombshell grading the citys rating one notch from a double a plus to double a the citys outlook from stable to negative this could have serious. Simple occasions for the borrowing cost of companies and the government this is hong kongs 1st downgrade by fitch since 1995 but leader kerry lamb hit back to
Rosanna first we are looking at trump tower. Yesterday we were on the phone and talking about what we were seeing on tv. That was wild. Rosanna it was fascinating. You and greg should get the suction cups and try to climb the wall. Rosanna i and that was his idea. We have the glass outside of this building. Maybe well work that out for friday. I work in a brick building and the suction cups dont work so well. Rosanna i read about the suction cups, anything could go wrong with those things. Toilets. Give the guy credit, hes a thrill seeker. Did you play the creepy video . Rosanna yes, he needs help and hes getting that this morning. You are dying to have a meeting with donald trump, and climbing the building, how do you know you are going to the right office. Look at that building. Rosanna you have been there a few times. Yeah, i took the elevator. Rosanna elvis duran is with us. I wont cause troubles this time. Rosanna happy belated birthday. We celebrated last week. You had a great ti
Rajiv has the rare gift of being able to folk coast on shop palm details. He paints a broad pictures. He listens more than he takes. He speaks to generals frankly, but so do the grunts and the other minor characters who drive the plot of any major story. This month marks the tenth anniversary of george w. Bushs invasion of iraq. Nothing written or said better explains the resulting folly than rajivs book, life in the emrad city, the green zone. And yesterday again, rajiv, gives us detail, the new book, Little America. Right now these days, a shortterm sequester to find 80 billion, but over the next decade we have to scrape up three to five trillion, which is just about what we managed to squander on an iraq war that left so many dead and so many more people who hate us. So lets start there. In the front piece of imperial city, he quotes t. E. Lawrence who advised his british superiors in 1917, do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the arabs do it tolerably than you do i