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UH OH: Financial Times: Rating agency warns on US public finances. Moody?s Investor Service, ?

By Glenn Reynolds

UH OH: Financial Times: Rating agency warns on US public finances.

Moody?s Investor Service, the credit rating agency, will fire a warning shot at the US on Monday, saying that unless the country gets public finances into better shape than the Obama administration projects there would be ?downward pressure? on its triple A credit rating.

Examining the administration?s outlook for the federal budget deficit, the agency said: ?If such a trajectory were to materialise, there would at some point be downward pressure on the triple A rating of the federal government.? . . .

The report follows concerns recently expressed about the US public finances from the other large rating agencies. Standard & Poor?s warned last week the triple A status of the US was at risk unless the country adopted a credible medium-term plan to rein in fiscal spending. Fitch Ratings issued a critical report on the US in January.

The country’s in the very best of hands.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on March 15, 2010 (boomark / email).