America has been rocked in the month of August by financial and political turmoil. There were the dreadful debt ceiling negotiations in Washington. The S&P debt rating downgrade, and resulting stock market plummets. But one thing we've learned in recent days -- mother nature is more powerful than us all.
UPDATE 2:31 p.m. ET Sitting in a Manhattan office a few moments ago, the building began to shake and tremble. I was just finishing lunch, downing an almondine pastry from the Financier across the street. On the fifth floor of a downtown office building the computer screen began to shake. I looked at the wall behind me, and it was shaking too. I grabbed my chair, but it rolled like a bowl of jelly, with me in it. I turned to a co-worker to ask if someone had spiked my coffee. Either somebody did, or we just experienced an earthquake, I said.
In addition to supplying medals to the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Rio Tinto will also be sponsors of the Mongolian team, where much of the metals come from.
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