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...
replyAnd 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.
replyNow whether that $1 in 20 years will buy anything is an entirely different story.
This exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_credit_ra...
USA is #18, below Taiwan and Above Qatar. Australia is #1.
replyAustralia's credit rating is something of a matter of national pride.
replyWell never missed a payment in its lifetime might make it pretty high even with high debt income ratio
replyIt does.
replyStandard & Poor's: AA+
Moody's: Aa1
It does:
replyS&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.
AA+
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