Ratings Agencies

Latest Articles & Videos

More Articles

• Messing with the Bull - Peter Schiff
• Why the Government Is Suing Standard & Poor's - Rick Newman, US News
• Moodys May Rate U.S. Aaa, But Central Planning Is An F - Bill Flax, Forbes
• Entitlements At Heart of Moody's Warning - Liz MacDonald, Fox Business
• SEC Slaps Down Ratings Agency Competitor - Jonathan Weil, Bloomberg
• Europe's AAA-Rated "Mr. Scissorhands" - Marc Jones, Reuters
• Credit Downgrades Can Be Poor Predictors - Paul Lim, New York Times
• Why Sovereign Debt Ratings May Not Matter Much - John Carney, CNBC
• Are Rating Firms Getting a Free Pass? - Roben Farzad, BusinessWeek
• You Get What You Pay For - Simon Johnson, Economix
• When Credit Ratings Lose Their Meaning - Faux & Shenn, BusinessWeek
• Summers's Bad Math Is S&P Informed Opinion - Caroline Baum, Bloomberg
• Did S&P Ratings Lead to Financial Crisis? - Louise Story, New York Times
• The Sinister Power of the Mighty Credit Rating Agencies - Der Spiegel
• Which Of These Countries Deserves AAA? - Stefan Karlsson's Blog
• Downgrade May Be Beginning of End for S&P - Charlie Gasparino, HuffPost
• Whatever Happened to 'Risk-Free' Assets? - Jeff Sommer, New York Times
• S&P and the Fraud of Government Regulation - Robert Tracinski
• AAA Rating Is a Rarity in Business - Eric Dash, New York Times
• Are Ratings Agencies Abusing Crisis for Own Ends? - Liz Peek, Fiscal Times
• Missed Chance to Curtail Ratings Agencies - Alex Klein, The New Republic
• The Fear Factor: Ratings Agencies Edition - Charles Gasparino, The Daily
• A Debt Downgrade Is Serious Business - Larry Kudlow
• Who Elected the Rating Agencies? - Holman W. Jenkins, Wall Street Journal
• S&P and Moody's Downgraded to 'Irrelevant' - Jack Hough, SmartMoney
• Only Fools Depend On Bond Ratings - David Merkel, The Aleph Blog
• It's Time to Downgrade the Ratings Agencies - Paul La Monica, CNNMoney
• World Won't End If US Loses AAA Rating - Mark Gongloff, MarketBeat
• Lack of U.S. Debt Plan Endangers Rating - Derek Thompson, The Atlantic
• Investors Break Their Bonds to Ratings Agencies - Cruise & Wilkes, Reuters
• Moody's and the Shame of the Ratings Agencies - Zachary Karabell, Time
• Inside Meredith Whitney's Ratings Agency - Katie Benner, Fortune
• The Time Is Now to Defang Moody's and S&P - Barry Ritholtz, Big Picture
• Is it Time to Stop Listening to the Ratings Agencies? - Curious Capitalist
• Downgrade U.S. Treasuries to Junk - Peter Morici
• Too Much Attention Paid to Moody's Swing - Investor's Business Daily
• Ratings Agencies' Epic Failures: Is AAA Junk? - Bruce Bartlett, Fiscal Times
• China Ratings Firm Still Aims to Enter U.S. after Rebuff - Bloomberg
• Raters Ignored Proof of Unsafe Loans - Gretchen Morgenson, New York Times
• Three Years Later, the Markets Are Masters Again - Philip Stephens, FT
• Ratings Agencies Play Chicken vs. the US Economy - Reformed Broker
• America's Triple A Rating Is Reduced In China - William Pesek, Bloomberg
• Time to Downgrade Ratings Agencies - Casey and Partnoy, New York Times
• A Dubious Way to Prevent a New Fiscal Crisis - Joe Nocera, New York Times
• Ratings Agencies One Link In Housing Boom - Randall Forsyth, Barron's
• Pay the Ratings Agencies Based On Results - Larry Harris, Financial Times
• Gasparino Deconstructs Buffett's Hypocrisy - Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge
• How Bloomberg Could Change Credit Ratings - Katie Benner, Fortune
• Time to Rate Credit Rating Agencies - Lucian Bebchuk, Project Syndicate
• Ratings Agencies: Conflicted & Incompetent - Jonathan Weil, Bloomberg
• Think Twice Before Shooting the Rating Agencies - Martin Fridson, Forbes
• The World Economy According to Fitch - Joseph Cotterill, FT Alphaville
• Ratings Agencies May Be Endangered Species - David Pauly, Bloomberg
• Long Awaited Fix for Credit Ratings Agencies - Barry Ritholtz, Big Picture
• Will U.S.'s Credit Rating Soon Go Greek? - Paul Kedrosky, Infectious Greed
• How to Solve the Rating System Problem - Vanessa Drucker, Fund Strategy
• More Common Sense Would Go A Long, Long Way - Bill Gross, PIMCO
• It's Time To Rein in the Rating Agencies - John Gapper, Financial Times
• Are Ratings Agencies Protecting the UK and US? - Wall St. Cheat Sheet
• Where Exactly Is the Rating Agency Reform? - Chan Akya, Asia Times
• Moody's, S&P Are Job Creators Minus Stimulus - Ann Woolner, Bloomberg
• As Rackets Go, Ratings Agencies Aren't Bad - Chris Thompson, Big Money
• How Moody's Sold Ratings--And Sold Out Investors - Kevin Hall, McClatchy
• Moody's Deserves to Be Dropped Into a Volcano - Michael Hirsh, Newsweek
• Have Ratings Agencies Taken Enough Flak? - Noam Scheiber, The Stash
• What Did Rating Agencies Know about AIG? - Matthew Goldstein, Reuters
• Breaking News! Credit Analysts Aren't Journalists! - Curious Capitalist
• Congress Drops Another Ball on Debt Raters - Alice Schroeder, Bloomberg
• Lessons for the Ratings Agencies - Sallie Krawcheck, Financial Times
• With Ratings Reform: Let's Try, Try Again - Colin Barr, Fortune
• Calpers: Rating Agencies to Blame for Huge Losses - B. Ritholtz, Big Picture
• The U.S. Triple-A: Nothing To Worry About - Felix Salmon, Reuters
• Some Perspectives on Sovereign Downgrades - FT Alphaville
• Relax. The U.S. Isn't a Deadbeat - Paul La Monica, CNN Money
• Getting Out from under The Ratings Trap - D. Evans & C. Salas, Bloomberg
• Moody's Berkshire Downgrade: More of the Same - Doug Kass, TheStreet
• Let's Write the Rating Agencies Out of Our Law - Robert Rosenkranz, WSJ