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Despite Financial Crisis, Credit Rating Agencies Skirt Overhaul

nytimes.com | DAVID SEGAL | Posted 12.07.2009 | Business

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When the financial crisis began, few players on Wall Street looked more ripe for reform than the Big Three credit rating agencies... So as Washing...

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Banking Sector Fix In Six Steps: Roger Lowenstein

bloomberg.com | Roger Lowenstein | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

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Financial reform seems to be flailing. Legislation has been proposed, but it is complicated and diffuse. Most of the proposed fixes are incremental ch...

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Help Us Investigate: Rating Agencies

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Adam Clark Estes | Posted 11.04.2009 | Eyes & Ears

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The Huffington Post Investigative Fund continuing to report on the causes and consequences of the financial crisis. Ben Protess, who published the fir...

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Is Strong Wrong ... Or Weak Right?

Dan Dorfman | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business

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Dan Dorfman

The bull-bear debate rages on, but no two ways about it: the bull has firmly grabbed the Wall Street reins. The bears are still out there hollering fire, but the fact of life is no one is paying any attention to the dire warnings.

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Half Measures and Lukewarm "Reform" Won't Save the Middle Class

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

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Joseph A. Palermo

Let's hope that when Obama speaks Congress he outlines not only a bold program to provide health care for all Americans, but also a set of proposals to lift the middle class out of its currently dismal economic condition.

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