If there's a "worst-case scenario" for this whole credit downgrade, this is it.
U.S. stocks have plummeted with the Standard & Poor's downgrade, but the final results of the AA+ credit rating could be much, much worse.
After studying everything that could happen due to the downgrade of the United States' top-tier AAA credit rating, and the potential default on its debt, we found a scenario that would result in forced asset sales so widespread that global stock-and-bond markets would plunge – and economies around the world would crash.