{"id":303011,"date":"2010-02-10T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T18:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/credit-suisse-usa-now-more-likely-to-default-on-its-debt-than-kazakhstan-2010-2"},"modified":"2010-02-10T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T18:52:00","slug":"credit-suisse-america-now-has-more-sovereign-risk-than-kazakhstan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/303011","title":{"rendered":"Credit Suisse: America Now Has More Sovereign Risk Than Kazakhstan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below is a Credit Suisse table ranking countries by perceived country risk. Usual suspects Iceland and Greece unsurprisingly make the top of the list. Yet what struck us was how badly the U.S. ranked. According to Credit Suisse, it has more sovereign risk than Kazakhstan even.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that U.S. government debt and private sector credit are what hurtled the U.S. past Kazakhstan. Credit Suisse&#8217;s table makes it seem as if U.S. credit default swap (CDS) spreads are far too low in relation to other nations. If the ranking is valid, of course:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b73000a00000000003a7b70-600-\/chart.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Chart\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Original Credit Suisse table via <a href=\"http:\/\/ftalphaville.ft.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/10\/146606\/handy-sovereign-risk-table\/\">Alphaville<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/credit-suisse-usa-now-more-likely-to-default-on-its-debt-than-kazakhstan-2010-2#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/just-when-greece-thought-the-worst-was-over-its-biggest-union-goes-on-strike-2010-2\">Awesome Timing: Greece&#8217;s Biggest Union Goes On Strike<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/sorry-folks-you-missed-the-once-in-a-lifetime-bond-rally-2010-2\">Sorry, Folks, You Missed The \u201cOnce In A Lifetime\u201d Bond Rally<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/goldman-if-they-get-greece-wrong-all-of-southern-europe-will-fall-like-dominos-and-30-of-euro-gdp-would-be-at-risk-2010-2\">Goldman: If Greece Is Handled Wrong, All Of Southern Europe Will Fall Like Dominos And 30% Of Euro GDP Would Be At Risk<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/aRlNEXvx4Og\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is a Credit Suisse table ranking countries by perceived country risk. Usual suspects Iceland and Greece unsurprisingly make the top of the list. Yet what struck us was how badly the U.S. ranked. According to Credit Suisse, it has more sovereign risk than Kazakhstan even. It appears that U.S. government debt and private sector [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}