The rating agencies like Moody’s and Standard and Poor’s, designated by the government to assess investment risk, gave the complex, untested subprime securities a AAA rating: when all was said and done, Moody’s had missed the mark by 20,000 percent.
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The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium by Martin Gurri.