{"id":34281,"date":"2023-08-07T08:59:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T15:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/?p=34281"},"modified":"2023-08-07T08:59:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T15:59:06","slug":"how-the-fitch-downgrade-of-our-us-credit-rating-creates-a-ripple-effect-with-cbdcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/how-the-fitch-downgrade-of-our-us-credit-rating-creates-a-ripple-effect-with-cbdcs\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Fitch Downgrade of our US Credit Rating Creates a Ripple Effect with CBDC&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It finally happened. The U.S. debt rating has officially been downgraded and everyone is going to be impacted by this, but especially those who are planning to retire. Hi, everyone. I&#8217;m Taylor Kenney with item trading. And today we&#8217;re going to be talking about how the U.S. debt downgrade will directly impact your retirement plans. There are so many ways that this hurts your financial plans, but today we&#8217;re going to focus on how we got here, what actually changes and how you can prepare today to protect yourself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHAPTERS: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>0:00 US Downgrade<br \/>\n1:50 Debt Downgrade &#8211; Be Informed<br \/>\n3:20 AAA &#8211; AA+ Does it Matter?<br \/>\n6:16 CBDC on Retirement<br \/>\n17:08 China CBDC Social Security<br \/>\n8:06 Your Retirement<br \/>\n8:42 Your Options<\/p>\n<p><strong>SOURCES: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/palashghosh\/2021\/05\/06\/a-third-of-seniors-seek-to-work-well-past-retirement-age-or-wont-retire-at-all-poll-finds\/?sh=5c723ebf6b95\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/palashghosh\/2021\/05\/06\/a-third-of-seniors-seek-to-work-well-past-retirement-age-or-wont-retire-at-all-poll-finds\/?sh=5c723ebf6b95<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/pubs\/EN-05-10024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/pubs\/EN-05-10024.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com\/news\/china-looks-add-digital-yuan-functionality-social-security-cards.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/cryptonews.com\/news\/china-looks-add-digital-yuan-functionality-social-security-cards.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitco.com\/news\/2023-06-30\/China-to-add-digital-yuan-payment-functions-to-social-security-cards.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.kitco.com\/news\/2023-06-30\/China-to-add-digital-yuan-payment-functions-to-social-security-cards.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/congress-again-ignores-solving-social-securitys-looming-insolvency-issues-114709476.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/congress-again-ignores-solving-social-securitys-looming-insolvency-issues-114709476.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/morning-money\/2023\/01\/09\/a-troubling-signal-from-americas-retirement-accounts-00076960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/morning-money\/2023\/01\/09\/a-troubling-signal-from-americas-retirement-accounts-00076960<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/money.usnews.com\/investing\/articles\/de-dollarization-what-happens-if-the-dollar-loses-reserve-status\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/money.usnews.com\/investing\/articles\/de-dollarization-what-happens-if-the-dollar-loses-reserve-status<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlanticcouncil.org\/blogs\/econographics\/practice-makes-perfect-what-china-wants-from-its-digital-currency-in-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.atlanticcouncil.org\/blogs\/econographics\/practice-makes-perfect-what-china-wants-from-its-digital-currency-in-2023\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/business\/live-news\/stock-market-news-today-credit-downgrade\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/business\/live-news\/stock-market-news-today-credit-downgrade\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2023\/aug\/02\/us-stock-markets-fitch-credit-rating-downgrade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2023\/aug\/02\/us-stock-markets-fitch-credit-rating-downgrade<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/08\/02\/1178215888\/fitch-downgrade-credit-rating-deficits-debt-economy#:~:text=At%20its%20most%20basic%2C%20credit,debt%2C%20like%20on%20credit%20cards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/08\/02\/1178215888\/fitch-downgrade-credit-rating-deficits-debt-economy#:~:text=At%20its%20most%20basic%2C%20credit,debt%2C%20like%20on%20credit%20cards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2023\/08\/02\/9-here-remaining-aaa-countries-after-fitch-stripped-us-of-top-ranking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/fortune.com\/2023\/08\/02\/9-here-remaining-aaa-countries-after-fitch-stripped-us-of-top-ranking\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/business\/4134013-white-house-lawmakers-express-anger-surprise-at-downgrade-by-fitch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/thehill.com\/business\/4134013-white-house-lawmakers-express-anger-surprise-at-downgrade-by-fitch\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/economy\/u-s-credit-rating-cut-to-aa-by-fitch-citing-debt-and-political-divisions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/economy\/u-s-credit-rating-cut-to-aa-by-fitch-citing-debt-and-political-divisions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It finally happened. The U.S. debt rating has officially been downgraded and everyone is going to be impacted by this, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":34284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2684],"tags":[45,59,114,340,708,1282,1439,1700,1720,1725,2627,2699,2701,2702],"class_list":["post-34281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-taylor-kenney-itm-trading","tag-debt","tag-gold-2","tag-silver-2","tag-dollar","tag-us-debt","tag-central-banks","tag-yuan","tag-digital-currency","tag-cbdc","tag-retirement","tag-de-dollarization","tag-aa","tag-aaa","tag-us-credit"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34281"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34285,"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34281\/revisions\/34285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itmtrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}