去年国会关于联邦债务上限的大斗争导致美国失去了标注普尔AAA级主权评级，但如今联邦政府的借贷成本却比那时候更低了。
Last year’s congressional showdown over the federal debt ceiling may have cost the US its AAA sovereign rating with Standard & Poor’s, but the federal government’s borrowing costs are actually lower now than they were then.