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S&P's Credit Analyst: US Not "Credit-Positive"
We've talked before on The Bottom Line about why lawmakers should not wait to deal with our unsustainable debt. Among the most important reasons for...
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Fitch Calls for Credible Medium Term Deficit Reduction Plan
Following the enactment of the American Tax Relief Act a few weeks ago, two top credit rating agencies--Moody's and Standard & Poor's--announced a...
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Credit Rating Agencies and IMF Say More Needs to Be Done
With President Obama's signing of the American Taxpayer Relief Act (ATRA), lawmakers have avoided most of the upfront hit of the fiscal cliff but have...
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Fitch Warns of Possible Downgrade as We Approach the Fiscal Cliff
With time running out for a deal, the U.S. credit rating may be in jeopardy if lawmakers don't reach a compromise to replace the fiscal cliff. Fitch...
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Getting Closer: Fiscal Cliff Number One Concern for Investors
Wonkblog's Suzy Khimm reports on two new surveys showing that investor concern over the fiscal cliff has well overtaken their concern about Europe's...
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Warning Shots for Lawmakers on the Debt
Today, the credit rating agency Moody’s made it clear that it is unlikely that the U.S. will be able to maintain its Aaa rating unless a comprehensive...
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Fitch: Fiscal Cliff Threatens Triple-A Rating
Fitch Ratings Managing Director David Riley appeared yesterday on Bloomberg Television, suggesting that the fiscal cliff could threaten the U.S.'s AAA...
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The Road to Economic Growth
The McKinsey Global Institute recently released a report assessing the efforts of the world’s ten largest mature economies (United States, Japan...
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Fitch Comments on U.S. Fiscal Situation
Once again, ratings agencies are warning the United States that our current fiscal outlook is not sustainable and we risk further downgrades unless we...
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Fitch Cuts Outlook on US Credit Rating to Negative
This afternoon Fitch Ratings lowered the outlook on the United States' credit rating from stable to negative. Fitch, considered one of the "big three"...
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The Importance of the Sequester
When Congress raised the debt ceiling in last August’s Budget Control Act (BCA), it mandated at least $1.2 trillion in further savings by 2021, from...
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What Have the Rating Agencies Been Saying?
Moody's issued a report the other day stating that failure by the Super Committee would not by itself cause them to strip the U.S. of its AAA rating...