Re: It like the financial crash never happened! : Wed Oct 02, 2013 11:35 am  

El Barbudo wrote:

Who is Tim?

The US won't default, it's Republican brinkmanship again.

Almost certainly they won't. But they let Lehman go down. They may feel that the holders of their bonds will suffer more than them and by defaulting they could steal a huge march in the "global race"?

[DaveO]

Re: It like the financial crash never happened! : Wed Oct 02, 2013 12:24 pm  

Dally wrote:

Almost certainly they won't. But they let Lehman go down. They may feel that the holders of their bonds will suffer more than them and by defaulting they could steal a huge march in the "global race"?

Not a chance.