Blog posts tagged "United States"

August 8, 2011 9:27 am 40 Comments

Who are the "grey men" who decide this stuff for S&P? People are beginning to ask. For in their draft assessment of the US economy sent to the US Treasury before publishing the downgrade, S&P made - according to the US Treasury - a staggering error of some $2 trillion MORE than the debt actually added up to...

May 23, 2011 6:03 am 14 Comments

Jon Snow blogs on President Barack Obama's visit to the UK.

November 2, 2010 10:54 am 21 Comments

Jon Snow explains why people in the UK should care about what happens in the US midterm elections.

November 17, 2009 12:23 pm No Comments

The ingredients are falling into place for another global financial crisis, blogs Jon Snow. And if it happens, the examples of Ireland and Iceland should serve to remind the UK that size matters.

July 6, 2009 3:05 pm No Comments

It is 24 years since Reagan and Gorbachev opened the window on the Cold War. They met in November 1985 at a chateau on Lake Geneva. I was lucky enough to be sent from Washington where I was resident correspondent for ITN. Today in a rather more low key moment, Obama meets Medvedev.

April 24, 2009 3:19 pm No Comments

Perhaps inevitably, my final highlight from the last 20 years is from the day an African American man became president of the United States. I was out on the streets early in the morning encountering the people from near and far who’d come to share in the moment. - See the whole of Jon’s first show [...]

April 9, 2009 4:30 pm No Comments

We are about to see Obama’s mettle tested domestically in America. I’m in the States this week and very struck by how his first international foray has gone down here. To some extent its supposed success has been taken for granted. There have been comparisons with Reagan in that the office of the US president [...]