As explained below, Egan-Jones was the first agency to downgrade the US credit rating. A few days later Standard & Poors followed and downgraded the credit rating to AA+, with a negative watch (1/3 probability of further downgrade.) That additional downgrade may follow if there are no fiscal improvement. According to Portfolio.com downgrade fears hunt world markets on august 8. 2011.
Moody's this morning restated the possibility it could join Standard & Poor's in lowering its rating of U.S. debt. The S&P decision has already sparked concern and market reaction around the world.Paradoxically as it may sound to a layman, the demand for US bonds (debt) has not declined because
One heading on Cnn august 8 2011 before the markets open is also "Downgrading the downgrade".
Geithner continued the Treasury's criticism of S&P, saying the ratings firm "has shown really terrible judgment and they've handled themselves very poorly. And they've shown a stunning lack of knowledge about basic U.S. fiscal math." The Treasury says S&P made a $2 trillion math error in downgrading the U.S. rating on Aug. 5.Standard & Poors track record has been terrible according to the well known economist Lawrence Summers. But that is not the main issue he says, hinting at the problems the political polarization creates for timely and transparent decisions.
Source: Moody's: Why We're Not Downgrading US YetMoody's said it expects the economy will improve and additional measures to reduce the budget deficit will be in place by 2013. The rating agency said this is why it reiterated its AAA rating for U.S. debt on Aug. 2, when the Senate agreed on a 10-year plan to reduce the deficit by more than $2 trillion.
But Moody's said that its negative outlook, which it also assigned on Aug. 2, was due to political squabbling in Washington -- the biggest potential threat to the bond rating.
Egan-Jones downgrades U.S. rating to AA+ from AAA because of rising debt-to-GDP ratio. The reason is not the delay in raising the debt ceiling.
-Small ratings agency unlikely to have market-moving implications, but comes amid possible downgrades from larger ratings agencies.The home page of Egan-Jones where you can find their methodology etc.
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U.S. AAA Credit Rating Downgraded By Egan-Jones Moodys and S&P Warn They May Follow
The populist tea party have entered the American House of Representatives. Now a famous republican David Stockman, a former director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan cools their hot tea. During the last half year from the summer of 2010 to the end of the year he has warned against both the repuplican and the democrates fiscal policy:
IF there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would amount to a bankruptcy filing. The nations public debt if honestly reckoned to include municipal bonds and the $7 trillion of new deficits baked into the cake through 2015 will soon reach $18 trillion. Thats a Greece-scale 120 percent of gross domestic product, and fairly screams out for austerity and sacrifice. It is therefore unseemly for the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, to insist that the nations wealthiest taxpayers be spared even a three-percentage-point rate increase.Source: New York Times July 31, 2010 "Four Deformations of the Apocalypse".
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