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Question: How do we supervise and regulate the credit rating agencies which, so poorly and perhaps illegally overrated so many derivatives? Paul Solman: I don't know. One proposed reform has been that the investors pay the ratings agencies for their services instead of the securities issuers, as was the case up to the 1970s, I believe. But why would an investor pay if the ratings were publicly available and how could you keep them secret? Another proposed reform is to make the agencies legally accountable for their ratings. But if that were the case, they might be sued out of existence. A third proposal: Make the agencies government-run. But are we really going to have a government ratings agency? In addition to government banks, perhaps, and maybe even government-owned auto companies? Which would be rated by the government agency? -- Posted May 1, 2009 | Comments (2) | Permalink
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ratings agencies are international in scope and require independence for credibility. government ownership and regulation will subject the ratings to even more problems than inaccuracy. users not issuers should be the payors.
All that is needed is to make the CRA's responsible for their product in the way anu other product provider is, whether it be physical goods or services.
Goods must be "fit for purposes" and function as advertised - so must credit ratings.
Nothing wrong, therefore with either, or even both sides of the equation paying - the rated and the investor - and the CRA must have liability for what it prints.