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Credit rating agencies and the subprime crisis - news and investigations

Credit rating agencies most worried about liability

It’s go time on Capitol Hill for financial reform legislation, and the credit rating agencies are breathing a sigh of relief....

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Rating agencies fight (and lobby) for survival

Under attack, credit raters turn to the First Amendment

By Ben Protess and Lagan Sebert

October 28, 2009

How credit raters fended off oversight from Congress and SEC

By Ben Protess and Lagan Sebert

November 11, 2009

Under attack, credit raters turn to the First Amendment

By Ben Protess and Lagan Sebert

October 28, 2009

Does DOJ probe mean the government is finally turning up heat on the rating agencies?

More evidence that Moody's prized profit above accuracy

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Under attack, credit raters turn to the First Amendment

By Ben Protess and Lagan Sebert

October 28, 2009

Credit rating agencies most worried about liability

Yielding to Wall Street, raters 'drink the Kool-Aid'

By Ben Protess

April 22, 2010

Reform reading: US, EU banking coordination needed to avoid race to the bottom

By Shirley Gao

June 3, 2011

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