Inflation in the US took a break for the month of October. From Marketplace, I'm

Sabri Benashore in for David Brancaccio. Between September and October,

prices did not rise according to the

C. P. I out this morning compared to a year earlier prices were up 3.2 percent but that

pace represents a significant slowdown in annual price increases, more than what surveys show economists expecting.

Meanwhile, the House of Representatives is getting ready to go through some procedural votes to keep the government open

for the short term and not run out of money

after this Friday and partially shut down. The credit rating agency Moody's has

lowered its outlook for America's credit rating to negative citing what it called continued political

polarization and large deficits but it hasn't quite downgraded the country

yet. Fitch on the other hand, has earlier this year,

which raises the question, what does it actually mean

for a country when its credit gets dinged?

Marketplace's Nancy Marshall Genser reports.

If you or I got a ding to our credit rating, banks would see us as a riskier bet.

It could be harder to get a loan.

Not so for the federal government, says Mark Goldwine, senior vice president and the committee

for a responsible federal budget.

People are still investing the United States of America.

The U.S. borrows money by issuing Treasury bonds.

Investors still see those bonds as a safe haven,

and they still think the U.S. will pay them back.

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