The World's Largest Pyramid Scheme

11 August 2011
By Boris Kagarlitsky
The United States managed to avert a default, and that is good news. But the partisan battle in Congress sent the stock market plunging, and the decision by Standard & Poor's to downgrade the country's credit rating has made matters far worse.

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