Tag: debt addiction

• Monday, August 8th 2011 - 04:14 UTC

  China warns US on ‘debt addiction’; demands global supervision of dollar issues

  

  Beijing bluntly criticized the United States after the superpower's credit rating was downgraded, saying the “good old days” of borrowing were over. S&P cut the US long-term credit rating from top-tier AAA by a notch to AA-plus on yesterday, over concerns about the nation's budget deficits and climbing debt burden.