Showing posts with label Credit Ratings Agencies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Credit Ratings Agencies. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Mark Zandi: Missing data from October and November combined with tariffs means inflation is still probably higher than it appears, closer to 3% year over year rather than 2.6%

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From the story here :  ... “The bottom line is, I think inflation is still uncomfortably high,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s...
Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Year to date spot gold is up ~54%

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By comparison, Total Stock Market Index VTSAX is up 14.83% ytd through yesterday. Total Bond Market Index VBTLX is up 6.4%. ... The [gold] r...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

Trump adds $1 trillion to the national debt in record time and S&P Global underscores its own irrelevance by maintaining the U.S. AA+ credit rating

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 Trump tariff revenue expected to offset tax bill impact, S&P says in U.S. credit rating hold ... "We could lower the rating over t...
Friday, May 16, 2025

The Golden Age isn't AAA

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USA loses last AAA rating, from Moody's, perfectly timed for after GOP can't move a budget out of committee lol

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Moody’s downgrades U.S. credit rating, citing rise in government debt ... Moody’s had been a holdout in keeping U.S. sovereign debt at the ...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Get ready for America to lose its AAA credit rating entirely under Trump

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 ... The agency said in a report that the country's fiscal health deteriorated further since Moody's lowered its outlook on the U.S....
Friday, February 14, 2025

Former S&P sovereign bond unit executive who participated in the Obama era 2011 credit downgrade basically calls Trump's America a banana republic, and DOGE not a proper government department

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  WSJ:   What about DOGE’s   accessing the Treasury Department’s   payment system? Kraemer:   We don’t have all the details of what they too...
Thursday, December 19, 2024

Trump's a Democrat now lol

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  Making chumps of us all. President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday that Congress should get rid of the debt ceiling,  a day after he came...
Thursday, August 29, 2024

Your reminder that each of the US credit downgrades occurred seven months after each of Nancy Pelosi's disastrous House Speakerships during which she spent in excess of revenues by 251%, the worst deficit spending on record

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Pelosi was Speaker of the House Jan 3, 2019-Jan 3, 2023 and Jan 4, 2007-Jan 3, 2011.  
Thursday, November 16, 2023

US House Democrat minority leader Hakeem Jeffries crows over passage of more of the same old, same old bloated spending by continuing resolution

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Looking forward to a Moody's downgrade, if they've got the guts. Congress certainly doesn't.   Senate sends funding bill to Bide...
Saturday, November 11, 2023

Ahead of another government funding deadline November 17th, Moody's lowers its US government ratings outlook

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  Moody’s Investors Service on Friday lowered its ratings outlook on the United States’ government to negative from stable, pointing to ri...
Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Multimedia journalism major with a minor in Spanish says it's a good time to buy bonds

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It's a Good Time To Buy Bonds. Just Know What You're Getting Into At least she doesn't have degrees in English literature and ph...
Wednesday, September 27, 2023

It turns out that former S&P Sovereign Ratings Committee Chair John B. Chambers, who presided over the AAA downgrade in 2011, is a partisan wackadoodle

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  Here commenting about today: “The external position is about the same, but I think the governance has weakened and the fractiousness of ...
Saturday, August 5, 2023

This week's lucky number is 2

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There's only one Speaker of the House who ever spent more than 300% of current tax revenues twice. And there's only one Speaker of t...
Friday, August 4, 2023

The US debt downgrades of 2011 and 2023 have one thing in common: Nancy Pelosi's record of the four most fiscally irresponsible years in the post-war

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Nancy Pelosi owns the record for the four most fiscally irresponsible years in the post-war, spending 316% of tax receipts in 2020, 276% in ...
Wednesday, August 2, 2023

Some people say they don't understand why Fitch Ratings downgraded the US to AA+ from AAA

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  Debt to the penny: July 31: $32,608,585,072,666.14 May 31: $31,464,457,465,522.98 Debt increase in 2 months: $1,144,127,607,143.16, about ...
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Moody's missed not only Signature Bank's problems, but Silicon Valley Bank's as well

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On Wednesday March 8, Moody’s still had an A3 rating on SVB Financial, owner of the now defunct Silicon Valley Bank, as it was already colla...
Tuesday, March 14, 2023

The fools at Moody's have just cut their outlook for American banking to negative, but don't take it too seriously

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The story is here . As recently as the end of January, Moody's had rated Signature Bank, the bank which failed spectacularly over the we...
Thursday, October 20, 2022

The US Treasury crash is epitomized by what's happened to Vanguard's long term Treasury mutual fund VUSTX

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                        The fund is down to $8.36 tonight, 2 cents away from its all time low set on October 19, 1987 at $8.34. That was 35 ...
Friday, September 13, 2019

The contagion of the record low 10-year Treasury yield of July 2016 has spread to the 30-year in August 2019

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U.S. 10-Year Treasury Yield Closes at Record Low : The yield on the U.S. 10-year Treasury note settled at 1.367% Tuesday, breaching t...