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Clive Crook of Bloomberg View applauds Ann Rutledge and Robert Litan's Brookings study, "A Real Fix for Credit Ratings": "The [rating agencies'] failure to do their appointed jobs was as spectacular as that of the banks, and at the very center of the whole mess---yet the...
Greg Gordon of McClatchy's Washington Bureau writes about the Brookings study by Ann Rutledge and Robert Litan, which calls for a single, public, numerical (ordinal, not cardinal), benchmark credit scale. Gordon quotes a recent interview with Rutledge: "'If we don’t have objective measures of credit...
David Nicklaus, business columnist at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, quotes Rutledge on what it would mean for structured finance to replace the familiar AAA, AA, BB etc. scale with a numerical scale: "Creating a numerical score for structured debt is like putting a speed limit on...
It is barely July and the first batch of mid-year box office reports are sounding a strange note of dread. Yes, dread. Heck, some of these reports are threatening to make me sound like a cheery voice of optimism, and that is never a good...
Nobody enjoys doing a survey. Well, there are a few exceptions. However, those are odd cases. I once conducted a phone survey on health care with a woman who insisted that yes, she wanted to answer the survey questions, but I'd have to hang on...