It's Hong Kong film star and Hollywood hopeful Chow Yun Fat striking what appears to be a kung fu pose, a matchstick clenched between his teeth, presumably for extra threat value.
Moody's, by the way, didn't even mention that other and very real threat to the value of U.S. Treasurys: inflation.
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Consequently when these men were processed by the Administrative Review Board that is charged with an annual analysis of whether an individual detainee poses a threat to America or possesses intelligence value, they were released back to U.K. custody because of lack of documented proof of their combatant status.
Graham Brown, chief operating officer of Britain's National Power, explains that the reason the upstart utilities are such a threat to oil giants is because the real value now comes from owning the customer.
That unilateral Israeli strike demonstrated the critical value of good intelligence in countering any threat of this kind.
Wall Street already has passed judgment on this threat, lopping off half a trillion dollars in market value from eight giants in the past year (Apple, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Dell, Compaq, Gateway, Intel and AMD).
Hollywood and the record labels believe they can hold off the threat from technology, both legitimate and illegitimate, and maintain the value of their products.
FORBES: And for the CDs I can give you, let's see... nothing.
For example, even though a Nuke would cause ninety billion dollars in destruction the probability of this type of attack is so low that it creates a vector value below the benchmark needed to consider it a daily threat.
The absence of a credible alternative to the dollar means that, despite its declining value, its status as the world's reserve currency is not seriously under threat.
Indeed rather than a dramatically overvalued ruble, which is what would happen if Russia were suffering from Dutch Disease, the most dramatic threat facing Russia in 2012 is that, as global growth retreats and prices for natural resources decline, the value of the ruble will stumble even further and require costly Central Bank interventions to prevent a panicky devaluation.
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