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How S&P and Moody's Goofed on Calculating Sub-prime Ratings

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S&P and Moody's those venerable rating institutions totally missed the coming storm on the sub-prime market. Until June sub-prime bonds were rated AAA. Most are now junk.

So much for the experts.

Submitted: Sep 26, 2007 Views: 546 Comments: 0 Likes: 1

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