Os Ratings

Três dias antes da falência do Lehman Brothers e AIG, o rating que lhes era atribuido pelas magnificas Moody´s, Standard & Poor´s e Fitch (as mesmas que agora nos colocam debaixo de água), era de AAA... 3 dias antes... alguém ainda confia nestes senhores de fatos às riscas? Pior, como não foram despedidos naquela altura, continuam a mandar palpites sobre as economias de paises e a descer os "ratings" sempre que lhes apetece... e nós, não lhes podemos descer o rating a eles??

"Analysts at the three biggest credit rating agencies who gave positive, investment-grade ratings to AIG and Lehman Brothers up until their collapse have not been fired or disciplined, the heads of the agencies admitted at a Congressional hearing today.
Moody's, Standard & Poor's, and Fitch Ratings all maintained at least A ratings on AIG and Lehman Brothers up until mid-September of last year. Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy Sept. 15; the federal government provided AIG with its first of four multibillion-dollar bailouts the next day.
Under questioning by Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), Raymond W. McDaniel, Jr. of Moody's, Deven Sharma of S&P, and Stephen Joynt of Fitch said the analysts in charge of ratings for the now-disgraced firms are still employed.
The big three rating agencies have come under fire since the 2007 collapse in the subprime home mortgage market for issuing rosy ratings on a plethora of securities that are now considered to be junk. The Obama administration and Congress are exploring various reform proposals.
At the hearing today, the exchange between Speier and the agency chiefs was particularly contentious.
"You had rated AIG and Lehman Brothers as AAA, AA minutes before they were collapsing. After they did fail, did you take any action against those analysts who had rated them?" Speier asked. "Did you fire them? Did you suspend them? Did you take any actions against those who had put that kind of a remarkable grade on products that were junk?"
McDaniel answered first. "No, we did not fire any of the analysts involved in either AIG or Lehman," he replied."