Lack of U.S. Debt Plan Endangers Rating

The United States' credit rating is much more fragile than I thought.

Yesterday, I proposed a hypothetical that if the U.S. raised the debt ceiling by $14 trillion, effectively doubling our legal borrowing limit, without cutting a single dollar in spending, the stock market would rally and S&P would have no cause to issue a downgrade as long as debt talks continued.

I was wrong.

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