[Skybird]

That simple it is not, Diopos. Why I do not take the word of rating agencies as a holy gospel, it has become common habit in Europe to demonise them because they dare to not confirm lies and claims by european politicians when they tell their newest fairy-tales. Instead they often just point out the obvious vulnerabilities and unhealthy details that politicians try to gloss over. No wonder that Eurocrats want to gag them and fight them with counter-propgaanda by a European rating agency. Which meansan agency that is saying what Eurocrats and politicians want it to say, and deceiving the public.

There are so many more agencies than just the big three from the US. There are many other americans ones, practically every nation has at least one own agency, big natiosn even have several ones. The biggest agencies btw are not American, but Chinese. And the two biggest of them already had doiwngraded the US long before it made it into the news that another Chinese rating agency had owngraded the US some weeks ago. The Chinese just see the purpose of such agencies differently, and thus often do not make a show of their assessements. That'S why we do not notice their verdicts.

I personally see these Chinese agencies as at least as important in their assessments, than the three big American ones.