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...five years at an average rate of 4.1 percent, businesses created five million new jobs, and lower top marginal rates created incentives for unforeseen innovation. In fact, without the Bush tax cuts the economic downturn might have been harder on the poor. His plan increased the child tax credit and reduced rates for lower-middle-class families. The only substantive critique leveled by revisionists at the Bush tax cuts is that they widened budget deficits. But, if deficits caused the recession, it’s curious that Democrats now propose to fix the economy with even more deficit spending...
...special concentration, I feel that it would be easier to choose Gen Ed instead of trying to figure out what Core areas I would have to take or be exempt from,” she said. “Also, since Gen Ed classes can count for concentration credit as well, this will leave me with more wiggleroom for electives and such...
...business stands on the ‘right side of history’ in terms of the alignment of our role and function with advancements in global capital markets.” Editorialists, pundits, and lawmakers alike have scrutinized this sentiment over the past year, debating the role that credit-rating agencies played in the subprime crisis. Instead of the blame game it used to be, this debate has recently become a more fruitful discussion between the public and private sectors—policymakers and rating agencies—about how to better design the process of rating securities...
...that it was “in no sense a ‘manual’” and instead a tool to enable investors to “analyze the conditions back of all security values.” Like his future competitors, Moody specifically intended his credit ratings to enable analysis rather than be ends in themselves. Nonetheless, by 1970, when the firm switched to a “corporation-paid” model, Moody’s ratings had become decisive factors for investors. In fact, by 1970, ratings from Moody?...
...Many of these credit-rating agencies are beginning to argue that their ratings are informed opinions, not answers, just as Moody described in 1909. Thus, some claim, they should be exempt from rebuke. According to The Wall Street Journal, many credit-rating agencies intend to use the constitutional right to free speech as a defense against upcoming litigation cases. While this may be juridical truth, and a clever defense, conflicts of interest and careless behavior will remain even under the old, investor-paid model. All the regulators can do is continue to effectively cooperate with rating agencies, working to create...