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From: Larry Kazdan
To: editorial@waterloochronicle.ca
Subject: Re: Canada�s AAA Rating on thin ice as Trump policies threaten trade, Feb. 10
http://www.waterloochronicle.ca/news-story/7124491-canada-s-aaa-rating-on-thin-ice-as-trump-policies-threaten-trade/
The credit rating agencies gave triple-A grades to investments containing sub-prime mortgages. Those investments subsequently collapsed.
The agencies also began reducing Japan's rating in the 1990s because of its high debt-to-GDP ratio, but nonetheless investors continue to buy Japanese bonds today even at negative interest rates. Those investors understand that sovereign countries with floating fiat currencies can never be forced into default. As former Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan has stated,"The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default."
Credit ratings should be ignored - they have been seriously compromised by conflicts of interest and by misunderstanding of sovereign debt as applied to countries like Canada.
Footnotes:
1. Alan Greenspan, "We can always print money..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6vi528gseA
- "The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default."
http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=6857
- In November 1998, the day after the Japanese Government announced a large-scale fiscal stimulus to its ailing economy, Moody�s made the first of a series of downgradings of the Japanese Government�s yen-denominated bonds, by taking the Aaa (triple A) rating away. By December 2001, they further downgraded Japanese sovereign debt to Aa3 from Aa2. Then on May 31, 2002, they cut Japan�s long-term credit rating by a further two grades to A2, or below that given to Botswana, Chile and Hungary.
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- In the New York Times the logic of the rating was questioned:
- How � could a country that receives foreign aid from Japan have a better rating than Japan itself? Japan, with an economy almost 1,000 times the size of Botswana�s, has the world�s largest foreign reserves, $446 billion; the world�s largest domestic savings, $11.4 trillion; and about $1 trillion in overseas investments.
- How � could a country that receives foreign aid from Japan have a better rating than Japan itself? Japan, with an economy almost 1,000 times the size of Botswana�s, has the world�s largest foreign reserves, $446 billion; the world�s largest domestic savings, $11.4 trillion; and about $1 trillion in overseas investments.
- The Telegraph article said of Japan:
- Bizarrely, securities backed by mortgages sold to people without the income to service the debt they were taking on were being judged a better credit risk than the sovereign government of Japan, with the ability in extremis both to raise taxes and print money to avoid a default.
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