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[CrONoS]

FACT!

Tim Backshall, chief strategist at Credit Derivatives Research, said the price implied that the US was more likely to default on its obligations than Japan, Germany, France, Quebec, the Netherlands and several Scandinavian countries. Traders said the CDS market for US debt was illiquid and it was hard to see evidence of increased concern over US creditworthiness in broader market prices.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e30472a6-7e79-11dd-b1af-000077b07658.html

[Asher]

Quebec is a third-world country that depends on foreign aid from Canada to function.

[CrONoS]

Originally posted by Asher
Canada is a third-world country that depends on foreign aid from Alberta to function.

fixed.

[Asher]

No argument there.

[CrONoS]

@Asher

Is there any separatist movement in Alberta? If yes, what's are the support from the population?

[Heresson]

wtf is Alberta? Oily part of Canada or something?

[Spec]

Its our own version of Texas.

Spec.

[Heresson]

If Canada gets free from teh british agressors and has a president from Alberta, teh world will be in teh trouble.

[Asher]

Originally posted by CrONoS
@Asher

Is there any separatist movement in Alberta? If yes, what's are the support from the population?

There is, but at the moment it's not too serious. That will change if the Liberals ever get elected and enact the Green Shift plan they have, or any other plan that will seriously derail the Alberta economy. When Harper said the Green Shift will threaten national unity, most people assumed he meant Quebec (for some reason). He wasn't referring to Quebec.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Heresson
If Canada gets free from teh british agressors and has a president from Alberta, teh world will be in teh trouble.

Canada's prime minister is a Calgary, Alberta boy...

[DanQ]

at Backshall including Quebec -- a province of Canada (in case you didn't know ) -- with the names of countries, as if their political status is comparable. Moron.

Originally posted by Asher
When Harper said the Green Shift will threaten national unity, most people assumed he meant Quebec (for some reason). He wasn't referring to Quebec.

QFT.

[Asher]

The best part was Dion pretending like what Harper said wasn't true, just because he was a National Unit Minister under Chretien (which is part of the reason we have a separatist party in Alberta )

[DanS]

While I have my doubts that the prices of these insurance contracts are based in reality, they are useful to show policymakers that an increase in public debt has consequences.