“MarkBrown 4,958 Posts 4,193 Likes the shitheads are back at it again - posting wildly fake news articles that are bias against trump - they are fucking eat up with it. these articles are written by fake news Chinese propaganda.. #41 32 minutes agoReport Like Reply” https://www.elitetrader.com/et/thre...forum-consequences.384632/page-5#post-6132647 “ Moody's Downgrades US Credit Rating From Elite 'AAA' (Dreamstime) By Lee Barney | Friday, 16 May 2025 05:18 PM EDT ET Credit ratings agency Moody's downgraded the United States rating to “Aa1” from “Aaa” Friday and changed the outlook to stable from negative due to the nation’s $36.2 trillion debt. The United States’ rising debt and interest “are significantly higher than similarly rated sovereigns,” Moody’s said. “Successive U.S. administrations and Congress have failed to agree on measures to reverse the trend of large annual fiscal deficits and growing interest costs,” Moody’s said in a statement https://www.newsmax.com/amp/finance/streettalk/moodys-u-s-credit/2025/05/16/id/1211283/ https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/moodys-downgrades-us-credit-rating-over-rising-debt.amp
On the path to becoming a banana republic. If the United States does not have a Aaa credit rating then why should other nations hold U.S. debt over the lengthy list of nations that still have a Aaa rating? With Moody's downgrade, US loses treasured Aaa credit rating https://finance.yahoo.com/news/instant-view-moodys-downgrade-u-212504077.html
Does anyone find the timing of this highly suspicious? released ~40 min after the market closed on the monthly OPEX day. insiders at Moody's or the company Moody's itself could have bought 10,000 SPY puts that were OTM for 0.01, at strikes of 593, 592, 591 or 590 ... for $10,000 ... then exercise the puts to sell shares, before the 90 min cutoff to exercise the options, and then during the after hours they can buy the shares at 591 for example, and instantly make $2 million? probably other tickers or indexes could have made even more.
I am also part of the Communist gang and Xi is our beloved supreme leader. The US had the AAA removed a while ago. Moody's guys were too afraid to give the country the last hit when any other agency took the top rating away from their books. They are giving the country a stable rating to look like they are being nice. No one believes that, you just have to see the massive debt own by foreign countries. There's one way out, one possible way. A default. That will happen at some point, hopefully in 50 years time when most of us are not around anymore. I feel sorry for your children.
It's not a surprise since both political Parties believe in some sort of MMT. Endless spending with no tax increases. Keynesian economics clearly states the government supports the economy in bad times & you increase taxes during good times but Keynes has been superseded by this MMT nonsense. The CRAs were exposed as fraudsters during the GFC. Anybody who believes these people are not interested in doing their own homework. Remember the head of Standards & Poor in a Congressional testimony claimed their analysts ratings were merely "opinions" and protected by the First Amendment. So according to Standards & Poor their ratings are for amusement only and not to be taken seriously. We would give a ham sandwich a AAA rating
If it's bad news for Trump, Mark Brown is going to try and bury it. If you post facts that make Trump look bad then you're a commie.
US can’t default. It’s obligations is that it delivers US dollars so it can just print dollars and deliver them. The dollars may not be worth anything, but there’s no default.