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FT: Moody’s warns on US sovereign rating
A while back, I was sitting in a meeting with some bankruptcy attorneys that were helping the investment group understand some new bankruptcy laws. After the meeting, I asked one of the attorneys a pr… more →
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Bloomberg Investigative Reporter Mark Pittman, Dead at 52 (Predicted Collapse of Banking System; Fought for More Fed Transparency)
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insightanalytical wrote 6 days ago: ~~By InsightAnalytical-GRL Bloomberg News has reported that Mark Pittman, who investigated the run-u … more →
Odds and ends for 11/25
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Lex wrote 1 week ago: Roots: Here’s one good reason not to go looking for your birth parents. Coincidence?: On Tuesd … more →
Proposed Rules regarding Ratings Agencies and Flash Orders
santiagochaher wrote 2 months ago: by Mary L. Schapiro, for The Harvard Law School Forum at Harvard Law School, September 27, 2009. (Ed … more →
United States of America sorrows of the real world in America today - financial marketeers Wall Street and Philadelphia's concept of what is valuable human life and what is not - according to their actions and inactions to protect human life, freedom, human rights and dignity -
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cricketdiane wrote 4 months ago: Calpers Sues Rating Companies Over $1 Billion Loss The California Public Employees’ Retirement Syste … more →
Finally, pressure on ratings agencies to come clean
innerdaemon wrote 4 months ago: Nothing like lawsuits to bring this to bear: The suit from the California Public Employees Retiremen … more →
The government's fiscal profligacy has made a mockery of the FRBM Act
Chaitanya Kalbag wrote 4 months ago: Pranab Mukherjee sounded pleased earlier this week when he told a TV interviewer that India’s projec … more →
How'd They Get Too Big To Fail In The First Place?
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Joshua M Brown wrote 5 months ago: The Bulge Bracket Firms, Left Unchecked Time for me to speak up, not one of you gets it. Today, you … more →
S&P cuts banks ratings
innerdaemon wrote 5 months ago: A little too late, isn’t it. Does the S&P have any credibility left? Standard & Poor’s … more →
Pigs are fighting swine
innerdaemon wrote 6 months ago: Citi v. S&P: Calculated Risk reports that Citigroup is livid that S&P would have the audacit … more →
Keeping a watchful eye on media forecasts about the Economic Crisis
Brian Steel wrote 6 months ago: Amid the welter of conflicting media opinions on how well or badly the world, and in particular the … more →
U.S. and U.K. Facing Ratings Downgrades
tristar3research wrote 6 months ago: Joining the ranks of banana republics? As laid out by the Telegraph, If the first stage of the crisi … more →
Warren Buffet on Moody's
Cynthia wrote 7 months ago: So – this is a kind of comment/ rejoinder to my post and comments thereafter on and off the bl … more →
Derivative Dangers and Frank Partnoy
shoemakes wrote 7 months ago: This is a bit of an old reference in internet time (from > month ago), but this is a new blog, so … more →
Moody's Receives a CYA Rating- What's Buffett's Strategy?
tristar3research wrote 7 months ago: The derivative horse has bolted! There has been insufficient legal and regulatory action against the … more →
Mooooooody's Tries to Prove its Not a Joke
Joshua M Brown wrote 8 months ago: Mooooo-dy's This is classic. After years spent gorging itself on fees from slapping paid-for … more →
The Blame Game
Sahil Alvi wrote 8 months ago: The Blame Game By Sahil Alvi Who is most accountable for this mess? Who is primarily to blame? … more →
SEC to Consider Policy for Ratings Agencies
samsondoggie wrote 8 months ago: The SEC will hold a forum to examine policy responses to concern about the role of ratings agencies … more →
Moody's sued in ratings case
vickykapur wrote 8 months ago: According to this morning’s WSJ, Paul Bienstock, a former analyst with Moody’s Investors Service, ha … more →
Substandard & Poor: Harry defends the Shred
harrycramp wrote 9 months ago: Like everyone else in the UK, Harry was glued to the television a few weeks back as Parliament … more →
