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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 vanderZwan on Thursday August 08, 2019 @02:53AM (#20642398)
Exactly, and without taking anything away from the article: this is not a new insight. From the moment it became clear what were the main causes of the financial crisis, there have been plenty of people pointing out that practically nothing was done to actually address them.
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Re:Inflated Bond Ratings Helped Spur the Financial Crisis. T... by JustSomeNobody on Thursday August 08, 2019 @08:10AM (#20643735)
Of course not. Because up until the bottom falls out, a few people are going to continue to make tons of money.
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