The New York Times reports (and Yahoo! News repeats without any paywall) that the government of Saudi Arabia is threatening to sell $750 billion in treasury securities and other unidentified assets if Congress passes the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act. The bill would allow foreign governments to be sued by 9/11 victims and their families. The threat was issued by Saudi Arabian foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir to unnamed US lawmakers while he was visiting Washington sometime last month, on the grounds that these assets could be in danger of being frozen by US courts.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 17 2016, @04:12AM
we would still have to deal with the ramifications--economic and otherwise--of instability in the middle east.
Which we caused? Damn, that's rich. Syria wasn't destabilize until Israel and the Elite Central Bankers decided they needed to call their US lapdogs in to destabilize the nation. Jews want a "greater Israel" and the bankers hate countries that aren't using debt based currency that they own printing rights to.
You want to end the destabilization? Get rid of the private central bakers who are the cause of every major war. [youtube.com]