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Moody's Names 283 Companies Likely to Default

(Newser) - Credit-ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service today released what it calls “The Bottom Rung,” a list of 283 companies—15% of all those it tracks—it says are most likely to default on their debts. Moody’s has been widely lambasted for failing to catch the credit problems...

Madoff Scam Proves Wall St. Incompetence
Madoff Scam Proves Wall St. Incompetence
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Madoff Scam Proves Wall St. Incompetence

Drastic regs needed, and be sure financial firms will resist

(Newser) - If the Bernard Madoff scandal teaches us anything, it’s that Wall Street’s masters “aren’t just too clever by half,” writes Steven Pearlstein in the Washington Post, “they’re not clever at all.” They didn’t just get “bamboozled by a con artist,...

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