{"id":45819,"date":"2023-08-08T07:10:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T11:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/markets\/what-no-one-realizes-about-fitchs-u-s-credit-downgrade\/"},"modified":"2023-08-08T07:10:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T11:10:52","slug":"what-no-one-realizes-about-fitchs-u-s-credit-downgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/?p=45819","title":{"rendered":"What No One Realizes About Fitch&#8217;s U.S. Credit Downgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"article-body fs-article fs-premium fs-responsive-text current-article font-body color-body bg-base font-accent article-subtype__masthead\">\n<p><strong>What No One Realizes About Fitch&#8217;s U.S. Credit Downgrade<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><fbs-ad position=\"top\" progressive=\"\" ad-id=\"article-0-top\"><\/fbs-ad><\/p>\n<p><strong>While Fitch Ratings<\/strong> mined a mother lode of publicity when it recently cut the credit rating of U.S. government obligations, market reactions were largely muted. After all, no one seriously believes that Uncle Sam would default on its bonds the way, say, Argentina routinely does.<\/p>\n<p>But for all the flaws of credit-rating agencies like Fitch, it is in a larger sense correct that if Washington continues on its current course, it will seriously degrade the quality of its debt. This episode of What\u2019s Ahead explains what the threats are and that conventional nostrums, such as tax hikes, are no cure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sigfile article-body fs-responsive-text font-body\"><span>Follow me on\u00a0<\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/steveforbesceo\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0<span>Send me a secure\u00a0tip<\/span>.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"bottom-contrib-block\">\n<div class=\"fs-author-group-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"contrib-byline\"><\/div>\n<p><fbs-cordial type=\"Follow\" natural-id=\"blogAuthorId\/blog\/author\/576\" author-slug=\"steveforbes\" page-position=\"bottom\"><\/fbs-cordial><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/steveforbes\/2023\/08\/08\/what-no-one-realizes-about-fitchs-us-credit-downgrade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What No One Realizes About Fitch&#8217;s U.S. Credit Downgrade While Fitch Ratings mined a mother lode of publicity when it recently cut the credit rating of U.S. government obligations, market reactions were largely muted. After all, no one seriously believes that Uncle Sam would default on its bonds the way, say, Argentina routinely does. 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