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In 2011, ongoing political debate in the United States Congress about the appropriate level of government spending and its effect on the national debt and deficit reached a crisis centered on raising the debt ceiling, leading to the passage of the Budget Control Act of 2011.
In finance and investing, Black Monday 2011 refers to August 8, 2011, when US and global stock markets crashed [1] following the Friday night credit rating downgrade by Standard and Poor's of the United States sovereign debt from AAA, or "risk free", to AA+. [2] It was the first time in history the United States was downgraded. [3]
The 2011 S&P downgrade was the first time the US federal government was given a rating below AAA. S&P had announced a negative outlook on the AAA rating in April 2011. The downgrade to AA+ occurred four days after the 112th United States Congress voted to raise the debt ceiling of the federal government by means of the Budget Control Act of 2011 on August 2, 2011.
The debate sounds eerily similar: Newly elected House Republicans, eager to confront the Democratic president, refused to raise the debt limit without cuts to federal spending.
Here's the headline of the year: Apple (NAS: AAPL) now has more cash than the U.S. Treasury. As of Wednesday, the U.S. government had an operating balance of $73.7 billion. Apple has $76 billion ...
The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, [1] colloquially referred to as the Supercommittee, was a joint select committee of the United States Congress, created by the Budget Control Act of 2011 on August 2, 2011. This act was intended to prevent the sovereign default that could have resulted from the 2011 United States debt-ceiling crisis.
The 2011 crisis eventually ended just two days before the Treasury Department had projected the U.S. would run out of cash. It was the last time a debt-ceiling agreement resulted in concrete ...
The Budget Control Act of 2011 (Pub. L. 112–25 (text), S. 365, 125 Stat. 240, enacted August 2, 2011) is a federal statute enacted by the 112th United States Congress and signed into law by US President Barack Obama on August 2, 2011. The Act brought conclusion to the 2011 US debt-ceiling crisis.