Rosenberg Daily Soundbites

• Concerns over the breakdown of the U.S. debt-ceiling talks are spilling into the markets quite visibly; Greece’s credit rating was cut three notches by Moody’s to Ca; gold is hitting fresh all-time highs today
• Polls keep shifting; Obama’s approval ratings are on the decline
• Don’t let a good crisis go to waste: That was what Rahm Emanuel was fond of saying during the depth of the U.S. financial crisis in early 2009. Well, the exact same thing can be said about ‘save-the-euro’ summit in Brussels last week
• Gold hanging in just fine