{"id":869,"date":"2011-08-08T15:30:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T06:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=869"},"modified":"2011-08-08T15:30:06","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T06:30:06","slug":"usa-today-august-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=869","title":{"rendered":"USA Today (August 7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe United States&#8217; unquestioned AAA credit rating is gone, for the first time ever.\u201d S&#038;P\u2019s downgrade was not a surprise, instead it \u201cmerely confirmed what anyone with their eyes open for the past decade or two already knew: The U.S. has a huge and growing debt problem that it is resolutely unwilling to solve.\u201d USA Today points out one silver lining. The U.S. is not incapable of solving this problem, merely unwilling. Another silver lining is that two major agencies (Moody\u2019s and Fitch) still assign the highest rating to U.S. debt, which continues to be highly sought by investors worldwide.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe United States&#8217; unquestioned AAA credit rating is gone, for the first time ever.\u201d S&#038;P\u2019s downgrade was not a surprise, instead it \u201cmerely confirmed what anyone with their eyes open for the past decade or two already knew: The U.S. has a huge and growing debt problem that it is resolutely unwilling to solve.\u201d USA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[852,270,68,67,88,66,8],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-aaa","tag-debt","tag-fitch","tag-moodys","tag-ratings-agencies","tag-sp","tag-u-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}