I suspect you're right about the rating. Â It seems like the stock market is run by a few extremely wealthy billionaires, playing around to make another billion or two (at the cost of the rest of the world). However, you're other bit about America coming to a halt I hope you're wrong about. Â Scary, but you could be right? Changes are that (like someone wrote) America is just to greedy to let that happen though. Â One way or the other, it's all an ugly and scary picture of the future any where in the world.