A former S&P executive shares his views of U.S. creditworthiness under President Trump.

So the people of you who don't want to work at the company, that’s fine with me," he says. "I'm not mad at you, don't be mad at me. It's a free country, you can walk with your feet.

Moritz Kraemer was an executive in S&P’s sovereign-bond unit when it cut the U.S.’s rating in 2011. Now an economist for German bank LBBW, he says the dysfunction in Washington has only worsened. Read ...

"Again, there you go, if two people were here it would be cheaper," he said. All eyes this week were on the Bank of England as a base rate cut from 4.75% to 4.5% was confirmed - but while that was ...