"On Feb. 7, 2010, the secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Geithner, was asked whether persistent deficits put the United States in danger of losing its AAA credit rating.
“Absolutely not,” he said. “That will never happen to this country.”
A little over a year later it did, when the ratings agency Egan-Jones downgraded the United States to AA."
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