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By Washington's Blog
Global Research, July 27, 2011
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25796
According to Reuters, a majority of economists now think that U.S. credit will be downgraded.
The debt ceiling plans being proposed likely will not avoid a debt downgrade.
Indeed, as Zero Hedge notes, the cuts being proposed in the debt ceiling proposals would be offset by the costs of the downgrade: