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Re:Warren Buffett: Pretty Good for Government Work by gg25 on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @07:57AM (#1914020)
Nice straw man attack. How does that have anything to do with his argument that Uncle Sam helped calm one of the biggest economic crises in history?

Also implying that Moody is corrupt is asinine. Yes, they made mistakes (what credit agency didn't during the housing bubble?), but they didn't break any laws.

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Re:Warren Buffett: Pretty Good for Government Work by zoomzoom on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @08:50AM (#1914160)
Would hardly call it asinine. There is a difference between illegality and corruption, and many would argue that us lawmakers have legalized bribery in the financial sector. You may disagree, but that doesn't make the viewpoint ignorant.
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Re:Warren Buffett: Pretty Good for Government Work by pwhelan on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @10:17AM (#1914473)
The implication, however, is that they were doing something shady that the rest of the credit rating agencies were not -- which is incorrect.
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