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• The European AIG: How Moodys Downgrade Of Greece Can Start The Avalanche

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 742
  As one so vividly remembers, probably the key catalyst that set off the chain of events last fall following the collapse of Lehman were the closed loop (and much delayed) downgrades of AIG, which in a span of hours went from AAA to much lower, thus springing various collateral requirements which the company could not ...
  4 days ago

• Moody’s Warns Debtor Nations to Beware “Social Unrest and Public Tension”

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 622
  It sounds a bit out of the ordinary, but a credit rating agency, Moody’s, has stepped forward to warn leading industrialized nations like the US and Britain to be careful about where exorbitant debt can lead them. Yet it didn’t focus its caution on the financial perils of loose fiscal policy. Instead it ...
  6 days ago

• Guest Post: Rating Agency Scandal - SEC Chooses Remedial Over Preventative | zero hedge

  
  The World We'll Inherit — Authority: 109
  Submitted by Damien Hoffman of Wall St. Cheat Sheet Extra, Extra! Read all about it : SEC Enforcement Director Robert Khuzami told the Senate Judiciary Committee the SEC is “looking very closely at credit rating agencies ” — Moody’s Investors Service ( MCO ), Standard & Poor’s ( MHP ) and ...
  1 week ago

• Guest Post: Rating Agency Scandal - SEC Chooses Remedial Over Preventative

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 742
  Submitted by Damien Hoffman of Wall St. Cheat Sheet Extra, Extra! Read all about it :SEC Enforcement Director Robert Khuzami told the Senate JudiciaryCommittee the SEC is “looking very closely at credit rating agencies” —Moody’s Investors Service (MCO), Standard & Poor’s (MHP) and FitchRatings — ...
  1 week ago

• Trip’s morning reading

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 604
  The number of people in U.S. prisons has grown at the slowest pace in nearly a decade , according to figures released Tuesday by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, according to the Washington Post. The study also noted that incarceration rates in 30 states declined last year. New Mexico apparently was not one of them, ...
  1 week ago

• U.S., Britain may test Aaa rating boundaries, Moodys warns

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Credit-rating agency Moodys Investor Services on Tuesday warned that the United States and Great Britain may test the limits of their Aaa sovereign ratings due to deteriorating public finances. "These are the Aaa countries whose public finances are deteriorating considerably and may therefore ...
  2 weeks ago

• Moodys Absolutely Does Not Fail to Issue Timely Non-Downgrade Downgrade on United States and United Kingdom Debt

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 742
  The passage of time, in addition to being subject to dilation through the effects of e.g., relative velocity, also suffers numerous perceptual contortions depending on the observers particular state of mind. For the purposes of day to day affairs, most humans not at relative velocities to their immediate surroundings ...
  2 weeks ago

• Advisor Alert: Emerging Markets

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 142
  The following summaries are part of the weekly Advisor Alert produced by US Global Funds for the week ending … Emerging Markets Strengths China’s November HSBC Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) rose to 55.7 from 55.4 in October, driven by stronger new orders, especially those for exports. ...
  2 weeks ago

• UC PROFS LETTER OF WARNING TO STUDENTS

  
  UT: THE EYES OF TFA ARE UPON YOU! — Authority: 130
  The Blogmeister ran across a fascinating letter written by University of California Professor Bob Meister, who also serves as President of the Council of UC Faculty Associations, to UC students.  As readers take in the article and the financial sleights of hand it describes, they should keep in mind where UCs current ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nuke Em, Duke Em Propaganda Machines - Goldman Attacks Fitch For Downgrading Mexico

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 742
  As we pointed out previously , a Fitch downgrade of Mexico was only a matter of days (S&P - not so much, as the agency is back to its operational sweet spot in the middle of a Fed-enforced bubble). Sure enough, earlier today Fitch dropped Mexicos rating to BBB, citing “The global economic and financial crisis ...
  4 weeks ago

• Trip’s morning reading

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 604
  Senators from both parties are pushing to free up billions of dollars for federal highway projects , as Congress looks to infrastructure investment to combat double-digit unemployment, according to the Wall Street Journal. Federal highway funds to states could drop by an average of $1 billion a month, or 30 percent, ...
  4 weeks ago

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