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    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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      “Bankers hate him! Get an 850 credit score and dictate the terms and interest rate of your own debt using this one simple trick.”

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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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      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.

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      Hey remember that one time where the country’s credit rating got downgraded due to political idiocy?

      Pepperidge Farm remembers.