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U.S. Credit Rating Downgraded for First Time
Max Read · 08/06/11 08:48AMMoody's Puts U.S. Credit Rating Under Review
Jim Newell · 07/13/11 04:52PMThe idiots who decided to extort the debt ceiling for their ideological demands, because they're incapable of making their non-arguments persuasively enough in the usual court of public opinion, are not getting nearly enough shit for their psychotic, economically illiterate actions. Now the United States has the credit rating agency Moody's on its ass and is placing the government's debt rating under review — not over the manageability or size of the debt, but thanks this completely artificial statutory number.