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The Credit Strategist
Aug 03, 2023
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It’s always difficult to determine why an organization decides to take a clearly obvious action at a particular time when that action could have been taken at many times in the past. Fitch Ratings’ decision to downgrade U.S. debt earlier this week from AAA to AA+ came at an unusually precarious time in American politics and history. For that reason, I…

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