Quando si arrabbia Obama S&P diventa meno indipendente , I dati sull’Italia vengono diffusi con ritardo…, QE3 come la panacea , La povertà in USA , Le scelte di tedeschi

SYDNEY/BANGALORE (Reuters -22 ago 2011) - The chief of Standard & Poor's will step down next month, to be replaced by a senior Citibank executive, in a move announced a few weeks after the credit rating agency downgraded US debt
SINGAPORE (Reuters 22 ago 2011) - … a survey of Chinese factory output soothed fears of a hard landing for the world's No.2 economy, but gold hit a record on persistent concerns about the health of the developed world.
(SOLE24ORE 23ago 2011)Rallenta il Pil nell'area Ocse per il quarto trimestre consecutivo. Bene Italia (+ 0,3%) e Stati Uniti
(FINANC TIMES 23 ago 2011)Wall Street buoyed by QE3 speculation
(REUTERS 22 ago 2011) Altogether, there are now almost 46 million people in the United States on food stamps, roughly 15 percent of the population. That's an increase of 74 percent since 2007, just before the financial crisis and a deep recession led to mass job losses.
At the same time, the cost doubled to reach $68 billion in 2010 -- more than a third of the amount the U.S. government received in corporate income tax last year -- which means the program has started to attract the attention of some Republican lawmakers looking for ways to cut the nation's budget deficit.
LONDON (MarketWatch 22 ago 2011)
Germany forced to make a choice: Us or them?
Commentary: Berlin’s moment of truth: Stable money or one Europe?The imposing but sometimes difficult-to-fathom edifice of Germany since the Second World War has been built on a central foundation of international politics: that the Germans should never have to take hard decisions in choosing between intrinsically contradictory alternatives.