Word: blame
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...rules to inject more transparency into the ratings process and to better mediate conflicts of interest. But those rules were severely watered down from what the SEC had proposed the summer before and subsequently dismissed by people who had been hoping for genuine reform. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...list of people and institutions to blame for the financial crisis would include credit-rating agencies - the companies that assign letter grades to everything from General Electric's bonds to Malaysia's sovereign debt, indicating the chances that investors will lose money. The CEOs of the three largest agencies - Moody's, Standard and Poor's and Fitch - were assailed by Congress in October for the way their firms made record profits while raising few, if any, red flags about how massively risky mortgage-related securities had become...
...boonies” or a “flyover” area. Minnesota has the highest voting rate in the country. 78% of eligible Minnesotans voted in the 2008 election. Garrett J. Augustine ’10 feels that the whole process of judges deciding the election is to blame. “Whichever way it gets decided by the judges does not seem like the will of the people,” says Augustine. Clearly Minnesotans care about their elections...
...planner at Regent Atlantic in Morristown, NJ. Earlier this year, Cordaro, who has been a planner for 22 years, began advising clients for the first time in his career to trim their muni bond holdings. "Municipalities across the country are in rough shape." (See TIME's "25 People to Blame for the Financial Collapse...
...Crimson (8-22, 6-4 Ivy League) began strong but dropped its second Beanpot contest, 9-5, to Boston College (23-12, 5-3 ACC), failing to hold up late after building a 3-2 lead. Still, Harvard coach Joe Walsh did not blame his squad’s defeat on the distraction of playing in a big league ballpark...