Still no official voice has been raised by the dreaded rating agencies. And as we know, those who remain silent consent. It therefore seems that the agreement reached last night between Democrats and Republicans to raise the public debt ceiling to 2.400 billion dollars was enough to confirm the US triple A.
According to the online newspaper Politico, Standard & Poor's, the agency that most of all had lobbied by threatening the downgrade, would be oriented towards maintaining the three A's. Mak Zandi, chief economist at Moody's, also declared that for him the agreement is was a "historic event" that undoubtedly deserves the Aaa rating. However the agency, as it had already said on Friday, reiterated today that the American rating will depend on Washington's fiscal discipline.
