S&P May Downgrade US, Again

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S&P gave the US fair warning when it took away the country’s AAA rating. And, the credit rating agency said that America could not sustain massive budgets and continue to borrow capital at the current pace, and at current low rates. The US has been lucky over the last several months, as yields Treasuries have stayed low because of the flight to safety caused largely be the crisis in Europe.

S&P repeated its admonition again today on a webcast for clients

According to Bloomberg

John Chambers of Standard & Poor’s, managing director of sovereign rating said,

“What the U.S. needs is not so much a short-term fiscal tightening, but it has to have a credible medium-term fiscal plan. That is going to have to say something about entitlements, and that is probably going to have to say something about revenues.”

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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