America Is Doooooooooooooooooooooooomed!! Downgrade Tonite!

[KINGOFSHORTS]

They pull the notice at the last minute and claim a "Computer glitch"

WTF!

 

[KINGOFSHORTS]

okay they did not pull it, sorry off 10 minutes.

AA+ downgrade done.

 

[morganist]

Quote from KINGOFSHORTS:

okay they did not pull it, sorry off 10 minutes.

AA+ downgrade done.

Apparantly it is the first downgrade for seventy years.

 

[bond_trad3r]

Quote from KINGOFSHORTS:

okay they did not pull it, sorry off 10 minutes.

AA+ downgrade done.

Prepare for war!

 

[bond_trad3r]

Quote from morganist:

Apparantly it is the first downgrade for seventy years.

For or "in?"

 

[MKTrader]

I shudder to think how the "don't let a good crisis go to waste" administration will react to this...

 

[Tsing Tao]

Quote from KINGOFSHORTS:

okay they did not pull it, sorry off 10 minutes.

AA+ downgrade done.

Do you have any sources for this stuff or are you just pulling most of it from your ass?

This is what I see:

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/05/sp-tells-white-house-it-will-downgrade-u-s-rating/

I see S+P caving to pressure from the White House, and instead, remaining the farce of a rating agency they have always been.

 

[morganist]

Quote from Tsing Tao:

Do you have any sources for this stuff or are you just pulling most of it from your ass?

No it has just happened. Seriously. It is on the news. It is like september eleven no one can really believe it happened until they saw it on tv.

 

[will848]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/06/us-usa-debt-downgrade-idUSTRE7746VF20110806

just got knocked down a notch

 

[Tsing Tao]

Quote from morganist:

No it has just happened. Seriously. It is on the news. It is like september eleven no one can really believe it happened until they saw it on tv.

Apparently it has not.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...owngrade-unidentified-official-tells-cnn.html