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Grasping Reality with Both Hands: The Semi-Daily Journal Economist Brad DeLong
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April 27, 2008
Roger Lowenstein on the Subprime Blowup
Roger Lowenstein almost makes me sorry for Moody's.
First: God! What a lousy lead!
Moody's - Credit Rating - Mortgages - Investments - Subprime Mortgages : In 1996, Thomas Friedman, the New York Times columnist, remarked on “The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer” that there were two superpowers in the world — the United States and Moody’s bond-rating service — and it was sometimes unclear which was more powerful. Moody’s was then a private company that rated corporate bonds, but it was, already, spreading its wings into the exotic business of rating securities backed by pools of residential mortgages...
I find it hard to imagine how anybody could think that this is an informative way to begin an article.
The body of Lowenstein's article is pretty good:
[S]uppose the security had a rating. If it were rated triple-A by a firm like Moody’s, then the investor... wouldn’t need to know what properties were in the pool, only that the pool was tri"
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