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What is left unsaid in the news from Ford is that it is academic whether aid for the car companies comes from their private debt holders or the government. The UAW will bend to another round of concessions. At the rate at which The Big Three probably lost money last month, the industry could need $50 billion or more in financial support between now and the end of this year. That assumes that car sales drop at a rate of only...
...China have proved that opposites do indeed attract - even economically speaking. China is thrifty to a fault; the U.S. (until recently, anyway) reveled in spending money it didn't have. China was more than happy to send America its excess savings, in the form of investments in U.S. government debt, because that kept interest rates down, which kept consumers spending, which kept the Chinese exporters producing...
...called off after strident objections from congressional leaders. Two years later, Beijing's fledgling sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corp. poured $3 billion into Blackstone in return for a 10% stake in the New York City - based private-equity firm, just before the bottom fell out of U.S. debt and equity markets. That deal was followed by a $5 billion purchase of a 9.9% stake in Morgan Stanley, then in the early throes of the credit crisis. Morgan Stanley's share price has since fallen by more than half...
...There's no question that it's a buyer's market for raw materials, and that many resource companies are struggling to find willing partners and financiers. China's Rosneft injection will allow the Russian company to pay off $8.5 billion in debt - 60% of it owed to foreign banks - that matures this year. Beijing looks like the last, best hope of miners and drillers...
...Fernando Henrique Cardoso, was the first President to recognize that change was needed. He restored fiscal sanity by slaying hyperinflation, but his attempts at social reform were timid. Lula's victory in 2002 panicked Wall Street and the Brazilian élite. But instead of defaulting on Brazil's foreign debt or busting the budget, as they feared he would, Lula embraced one of the few positive legacies of Brazil's royalist roots: deliberate, negotiated consensus-building. It's a hallmark of Brazil's widely respected diplomatic corps - and it tempered Lula even when he was a metal-workers union boss...