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Moody’s Ratings has stripped the United States government of its top credit rating, citing successive governments’ failure to stop a rising tide of debt, a surprise move that could complicate President Donald Trump’s efforts to cut taxes and send ripples through global markets.

On Friday, Moody’s lowered the rating from a gold-standard Aaa to Aa1. “Successive US administrations and Congress have failed to agree on measures to reverse the trend of large annual fiscal deficits and growing interest costs,” it said as it changed its outlook on the US to “stable” from “negative”.

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[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 43 minutes ago

If you haven't already, consider rebalancing your retirement accounts to invest in international funds. You may not be able to get international bonds but you can divest in federal bonds and instead support local/state ones. If your 401k doesn't, consider talking to your HR department to see if you can get funds added.

[-] otterpop@lemmy.world 1 points 12 minutes ago

This also might be the optimal strategy anyway, a 33% domestic 66% international allocation. There was recently a paper on this topic, here's a video covering it: https://youtu.be/-nPon8Ad_Ug

[-] Aidinthel@reddthat.com 24 points 4 hours ago

This is something that will probably be lost in the churn of the news cycle because most people don't understand it, but it's actually really bad for the US government. The reason this country has been able to get by with such a large debt until now was that the interest was kept low by the fact that lending money to the US was seen as very safe. A change in that status quo could bring the whole house of cards crashing down with calamitous results.

[-] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 4 hours ago
[-] phil_dissonance@lemm.ee 8 points 3 hours ago

Yeah Greece has a different standing and is still nor revovered from the financial crisis 10 years ago, where downgrades in credit rating also contributed

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