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To: Joe NYC who wrote (468125)4/2/2009 12:06:24 AM
From: SilentZ  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1576608
 
>What I wonder is how the rating agencies are still standing as if nothing happened...

Yeah. That has to change. Do you think the government should serve as the rating agency? That MIGHT make sense; I haven't thought it through. But at least there should be serious regulations on interactions between the ratings agencies and the institutions whose holdings they rate.

-Z



To: Joe NYC who wrote (468125)4/2/2009 12:06:25 AM
From: SilentZ  Respond to of 1576608
 
>What I wonder is how the rating agencies are still standing as if nothing happened...

Yeah. That has to change. Do you think the government should serve as the rating agency? That MIGHT make sense; I haven't thought it through. But at least there should be serious regulations on interactions between the ratings agencies and the institutions whose holdings they rate.

-Z