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Old 08-09-2011, 12:38 PM  
PR_Glen
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Originally Posted by dyna mo View Post
10 years.


Standard & Poor's took away Canada's AAA rating on debt denominated in foreign currencies in 1992.

But Ottawa recovered the grade in 2002 after reducing government spending as a fraction of GDP by more than eight percent, through a series of stringent spending cuts.
damn, good find...

we didn't have a major financial crisis at all during all that either... So are the market jumps just fear driven?
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