S&P Calculations in Possible US Downgrade Were Off by 'Trillions': Source - CNBC

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I'm not so naive as to believe that politics and business aren't the same thing at some level, but this shows the degree to which purely partisan considerations have influenced economic decisions.

How in the name of green grass can two parties sit together and be trillions of dollars off in their calculations due to a "mathematical error?"

I suspect it's because in the real world businesspersons don't have the luxury of using press release numbers and they don't get to revise their figures downwards, etc.

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