Ratings Agencies Are the Darnedest Things
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 11, 2011
Over the past decade, S&P and its rival Moody's helped bring on the financial crisis by completely flubbing their evaluations of subprime mortgage securities and the derivatives built atop them. They gave AAA ratings to financial instruments that were essentially fraudulent to begin with and effectively worthless at the end.
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