By Gwyn Morgan, Columnist, Troy Media
What a difference a decade makes. Who would have predicted 10 years ago that the main thing shielding the once invincible American greenback from apocalyptic collapse of confidence would be China's weekly purchases of U.S. Treasury bills? Or that a Chinese credit rating agency's downgrade of the debt of the U.S., U.K. and France to below that of China would seriously shake international markets? And who would have thought that a newly-elected British Prime Minister would make India his top priority for a foreign visit?