Current：Home > ScamsFitch, please! Why Fitch lowered the US credit rating -EliteFunds
Fitch, please! Why Fitch lowered the US credit rating
View
Date：2025-04-13 11:35:23
The credit rating agency, Fitch, caused a stir yesterday when it downgraded the United States' credit rating from AAA to AA plus. This came less than a week since Federal Reserve staff stopped forecasting a recession on the horizon.
So what gives? Today, we talk to an economist to break down the reasons why Fitch no longer views the US as among the safest of bets.
Music by Drop Electric. Find us: Facebook / Newsletter.
Subscribe to our show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts and NPR One.
For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.
veryGood！ (5)
Related
- Woman dies after Singapore family of 3 gets into accident in Taiwan
- Think you'll work past 70? Good luck. Why most of us retire earlier.
- Group can begin gathering signatures to get public records measure on Arkansas ballot
- Jim Harbaugh leaves his alma mater on top of college football. Will Michigan stay there?
- All That You Wanted to Know About She’s All That
- Here's how much the typical American pays in debt each month
- Rauw Alejandro, Peso Pluma, Maluma headline Sueños 2024, Chicago's Latino music festival
- Experimental gene therapy allows kids with inherited deafness to hear
- The Daily Money: Spending more on holiday travel?
- Poland’s pro-EU government and opposition disagree on whether 2 pardoned lawmakers can stay on
Ranking
- $73.5M beach replenishment project starts in January at Jersey Shore
- Jersey Shore town trying not to lose the man vs. nature fight on its eroded beaches
- When and where to see the Wolf Moon, first full moon of 2024
- Billy Idol talks upcoming pre-Super Bowl show, recent Hoover Dam performance, working on a new album
- Newly elected West Virginia lawmaker arrested and accused of making terroristic threats
- With Vic Fangio out, who are candidates to be Dolphins' defensive coordinator for 2024?
- Trump could testify as trial set to resume in his legal fight with E. Jean Carroll
- Police identify relationships between suspect and family members slain in Chicago suburb
Recommendation
Why we love Bear Pond Books, a ski town bookstore with a French bulldog 'Staff Pup'
Court storm coming? LSU preparing for all scenarios as Tigers host No. 1 South Carolina
Jill Biden invites Kate Cox, Texas woman who was denied emergency abortion, to be State of the Union guest
States can't figure out how to execute inmates. Alabama is trying something new.
In ‘Nickel Boys,’ striving for a new way to see
Michael Mann’s Defamation Case Against Deniers Finally Reaches Trial
Eva Mendes Defends Ryan Gosling From Barbie Hate After Oscar Nomination
Bryan, Ohio pastor sues city after being charged over opening church to house the homeless