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ECReditorial

  1. Back to the stone age: Venezuela now safer than Greece, say economists bit.ly/JtfQ0X #politicalrisk #eurozonecrisis
  2. @BryanM2M @financialpost Unlike Repsol, risk experts saw increasing political risk in #Argentina prior to #YPF episode bit.ly/HTK90e
  3. #Argentina’s expropriation of #Repsol’s YPF stake anticipated by country risk experts bit.ly/HTK90e #politicalrisk
  4. #Moody's behind the curve on UK sovereign risk? bit.ly/x53zqM #downwithratingagencies
  5. Is #Norway about to experience a credit shock? bit.ly/xSRjvZ #sovereignrisk
  6. 2012 will be a big #election year in #Africa, but a host of other political risks await #investors on the continent bit.ly/x6tLdc
  7. Two economists give their views on why the UK deserves to keep its AAA rating (unlike France) bit.ly/wOhP3d
  8. North Korea’s ECR score ranks it 181st in the world, alongside fellow one-party states Laos, Eritrea and Mauritania bit.ly/sPunHm
  9. North Korea among the world's top 10 riskiest countries, according to ECR economists bit.ly/sPunHm #KimJong-il #northkorea
  10. North Korea’s country risk score falls by 2.5 points following the death of Kim Jong-il bit.ly/usrWcy #Northkorea #Kim Jong-il
  11. Economists agree with French Central Bank Head: UK economy is riskier than France bit.ly/s1rTmV #euro #downgrade
  12. Telegraph live blog: ECR economists believe UK is riskier than France #eurozone #markets #crisis tgr.ph/w0Dj4c
  13. Country risk experts consider UK riskier than eurozone AAA sovereigns bit.ly/tOuEyM
  14. The #Guardian picks up on ECR's story that the UK economy is riskier than each of the #eurozone's AAA sovereigns... bit.ly/tkXWT4
  15. Experts consider UK economy riskier than #eurozone's triple-A sovereigns bit.ly/tedfAS
  16. Economists have reduced country-risk scores for #eurozone AAA sovereigns by average of 7.5 points since September 2008 bit.ly/tedfAS
  17. Is #LatAm immune from #eurozone crisis? Economists say 'yes'. LatAm bank stability scores up by 0.13 since September bit.ly/sDqBG5
  18. ...But domestic economists in #China are just as concerned about #politicalrisk as their international counterparts... bit.ly/uGRZhY
  19. Who has the safest banking sector in #CEE? Experts say Czechs, Slovaks, and #Poland have least to fear from #eurocrisis bit.ly/siomQM