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Re the U.S. debt downgrade, you should know that credit ratings understate credit risks because they only rate the risk of the government not paying its debt. They don't include the greater risk that the countries in debt will print money to pay their debts thus causing holders

When countries have big debt problems and the debt is denominated in their currency, they inevitably devalue the currency. As explained in my upcoming book How Countries Go Broke: The Big Debt Cycle, "debt is currency and currency is debt." In other words, since a debt asset is the promise to receiv