Oct 22, 2007

Chanos on the rating agencies

It's a great business model as long as you can get people to pay for it. If they have no predictive power over that which they're rating, then why bother?

~ James Chanos, president of Kynikos Associates, a New York hedge fund with about $3 billion in assets that specializes in short selling, "Moody's Faces the Storm," The Wall Street Journal, July 10, 2007

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