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With Moody's downgrade, US loses treasured Aaa credit rating (www.reuters.com)
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[โ€“] mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh no, not again!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_government_credit-rating_downgrades

Shit means nothing until countries start selling off their US Dollar stockpiles and quick backing international transactions with the US dollar. The only thing this does is make US bonds and cash reserves cheap.

[โ€“] Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago