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Claims about credit rating agencies (Moody's, S&P, Fitch), including their business models, how they rate debt and structured products, their accuracy and incentives, and their regulatory status.
The issuer-pays model caused credit rating agencies to assign inflated ratings before the 2008 financial crisis
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