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A comment on Inflated Bond Ratings Helped Spur the Financial Crisis. They’re Back. Parent comment

Re:Inflated Bond Ratings Helped Spur the Financial Crisis. T... by kortilla on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @07:53PM (#20640461)
This armchair analysis of economics is wrong. Only a small portion of it assumes every person is a rational actor.
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Re:Inflated Bond Ratings Helped Spur the Financial Crisis. T... by sprafa on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @07:55PM (#20640471)
Unfortunately, because otherwise the models wouldn’t work. Tell you more about the models than people.
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