If the US had a credit score, I wonder what it would be?

They're rated AA+/AA- depending on whom. The downgrades to the US's credit rating were big news: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_governme...

	▲	koolba 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		And also completely meaningless as a credit rating in the context of creditworthiness specifically means the ability to repay. And they can always print dollar bills to do so. Now whether that $1 in 20 years will buy anything is an entirely different story.

WD-42 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_credit_ra... USA is #18, below Taiwan and Above Qatar. Australia is #1.

	▲	trollbridge 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Australia's credit rating is something of a matter of national pride.

KumaBear 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Well never missed a payment in its lifetime might make it pretty high even with high debt income ratio

kube-system 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It does.

Standard & Poor's: AA+

Moody's: Aa1

spwa4 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It does:

S&P: "AA+ with stable outlook"

Moody's: "Aa1 stable"

DBRS: "AAA stable"

In terms of FICO scores this would be ~820 or so. The US won't have any problem any time soon getting some more private sector money.

Which is just the tiniest bit worse than Germany, but not much. And it's a lot higher than France.

bjourne 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

AA+