Analysis: Ditch the assumption developed economies are safe

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/17/us-economy-global-shift-idUSTRE80G0R120120117 By Peter Apps, Political Risk Correspondent LONDON | Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:40am EST (Reuters) – The downgrade of much of Europe’s credit ratings demonstrates in perhaps the bluntest terms so far the collapse of any lingering — if lazy — assumptions that developed states are somehow “safer” than emerging counterparts. In the years […]