Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Matt Stoller: Standard & Poor’s Predatory Policy Agenda « naked capitalism

Matt Stoller: Standard & Poor’s Predatory Policy Agenda « naked capitalism: "Standard & Poor’s was the most aggressive of the three agencies, however. And on January 16, 2003, four days after the Georgia General Assembly convened, it dropped a bombshell. Because of the state’s new Fair Lending Act, S&P said that it would no longer allow mortgage loans originated in Georgia to be placed in mortgage securities that it rated. Moody’s and Fitch soon followed with similar warnings.

It was a critical blow. S&P’s move meant Georgia lenders would have no access to the securitization money machine; they would either have to keep the loans they made on their own books, or sell them one by one to other institutions."

These slime are now responsible for a new cascade of fear that may prove to rival the fear inspired by the death of Lehman.

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