A special edition of The Polka? On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Doug Elrod <[email protected]> wrote:
> > This precipitated one of the few Tokyo live reports (Margaret Connelly > (sp?)) that I can remember since the "Business News from Tokyo" days. > Anyone remember any other? > > -Doug Elrod ([email protected]) > P.S. Hearing about the rating agencies being grilled in Congress, it > struck me that the problems with them would largely go away if they > were just transformed into "bookies", of a sort. Simply have them be > the only ones allowed to issue the (*also* troublesome) "credit > default swaps", and if their "ratings" (seen via how they price the > CDS's) are correct their profits will be maximized, just the same as a > skillful bookmaker! And there would be no problem making such ratings > public. Has this been proposed before? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
