Demonstrators in front of Standard & Poor’s credit rating agency offices in Paris 15 January 2012. AAP

Why we should be wary of ratings agencies

For decades, credit ratings agencies were largely ignored by the masses, but in recent months they have continued to hit the headlines again and again. The big three (Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s and…
The US must “choose between bankruptcy, raising taxes and cutting payouts”. AAP

Not China, not S&P: why the US has only itself to blame

If the United States thought it could stave off its day of reckoning, it was wrong. Standard & Poor’s prompt downgrade of US credit worthiness late Friday sent stock markets worldwide into a nosedive…
Not too big to fail: the Basel III doesn’t solve some fundamental problems of Basel II. AAP

Why Basel III won’t protect banks from another global crisis

The global financial crisis revealed the inadequacy of Basel II capital requirements for banks and exposed its loopholes. As a result, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) has come up with…

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