“I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.”

“It is hard to imagine that, having downgraded the US, S & P will not follow suit on at least one of the other members of the dwindling club of sovereign AAAs. If this were to materialise and involve a country like France, for example, it could complicate the already fragile efforts by Europe to resc”