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    9 months ago

    If you had 34 trillion in debt and a centuries-long history of making on-time payments, you’d have a perfect credit score.

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      The US govt basically has a perfect credit score. They have almost infinite payment history and almost infinite available credit.

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      Don’t forget being the only issuer of the currency you get indebted in. If I could get indebted in a currency I create myself, believe me I would

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      9 months ago

      Credit rating also depends on credit to debt ratio. You want to keep it below 35%, so you would need a credit line of $100T or more to have a great rating.

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        I think sovereign debt would work like an AmEx Platimum with “no fixed limit”, which makes the algorithm ignore utilization.