Про Fitch

Два дня назад Fitch подтвердил рейтинг США на уровне AAA. А три дня назад я пытался устроить шутливо-наивный флешмоб, чтобы оказать влияние на Moody's и Fitch, и они одумались и понизили кредитный рейтинг США. Прошёл один день с флешмоба, и Fitch нагло подтверждает рейтинг США. Совпадение?! Не думаю. Да, совпадение.

Вот, что пишет Fitch в обосновании рейтинга (мои основные выжимки)

In Fitch's evolving baseline forecast, U.S. GDP would shrink by around 3% in 2020 (although this could be subject to further revision), an unprecedented occurrence in peacetime and a deeper contraction than in 2009. In the event of the virus being contained during 2H20, Fitch assumes that real GDP growth will recover strongly in 2021, reflecting a sharp bounce-back. A plausible downside case, including a second wave of infections and longer lockdown periods across parts of the country, would see an even larger decline in output in 2020 and a weaker recovery in 2021.

The stimulus package has yet to be officially assessed for its budget impact, but at a conservative estimate, the federal fiscal deficit will rise to over 13% of GDP (дефицит бюджета как у банановых республик) in 2020 from 4.6% of GDP in 2019 (FY 2019). The general government deficit will widen further as states' and municipalities' finances will face increased demands, for example to pay unemployment benefits, and will absorb greater federal transfers. General government debt ended 2019 at around 100% of GDP but will rise to 115% of GDP by the end of 2020. This would put the debt ratio, absent consolidation, on course to surpass a level Fitch has previously considered inconsistent with 'AAA' status.

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Статья 2013 года на Рейтерс в которой отмечается, что в случае худшего сценария мировая экономика упадёт в рецессию на 4.8% и что основной удар произойдёт как раз из-за мер по сдерживанию, т.е. карантина.

A global pandemic that lasted a year could trigger a “major global recession,” warned a 2008 report from the World Bank. If a pandemic were on the scale of the Hong Kong flu of 1968-69 in its transmissibility and severity, a yearlong outbreak could cause world GDP to fall 0.7 percent. If we get hit with something like the 1957 Asian flu, say goodbye to 2 percent of GDP. Something as bad as the 1918-19 Spanish flu would cut the world’s economic output by 4.8 percent and cost more than $3 trillion. “Generally speaking,” the report added, “developing countries would be hardest hit, because higher population densities and poverty accentuate the economic impacts.”

The majority of the economic losses would come not from sickness or death but from what the World Bank calls “efforts to avoid infection: reducing air travel … avoiding travel to infected destinations, and reducing consumption of services such as restaurant dining, tourism, mass transport, and nonessential retail shopping.”

На этом фоне смотрятся странно заявление министра финансов США, что коронавирус не повлияет на рост экономики. Примерно схожие заявления у его российских коллег. Ни те, ни другие не учитывают, что бюджеты обоих стран не досчитаются доходов.

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