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Moody’s Buggy Model – But S&P Agrees

From Naked Capitalism:

“Just when the world at large has become inured to the stories of the role of rating agency incompetence and complicity in our credit mess comes a bit of news that catches the attention of even the jaded.

Moody’s had a bug in a program used to rate complex debt securities (constant proportional debt obligations, a troubled subsector) in 2006 that led billions to be rated Aaa when they deserved grades as much as four notches lower.

But it gets better…”

Naked Capitalism: Defective Moody’s Program Issues Billions of Erroneous Aaas

Posted in Finance & Economics.


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