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Who are the grey men who decide America's status?
Who are the “grey men” who decide this stuff for S&P? People are beginning to ask. For in their draft assessment of the US economy sent to the US Treasury before publishing the downgrade, S&P made – according to the US Treasury – a staggering error of some $2 trillion MORE than the debt actually added up to…