NRC: "De onrust op de financiële markten is fors toegenomen nadat kredietbeoordelaar Standard & Poor’s de status van Griekenland verder heeft verlaagd tot de zogenoemde ‘junkstatus’."
Vreemd genoeg had S&P een positief oordeel over de kredietwaardigheid van Goldman Sachs. S&P was al eerder aangeklaagd voor fraude.
SocialMediaSEO: "The Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, on April 19th (1 week ago today), stated that they have not changed their view regarding the credit worthiness of Goldman Sachs & Co. The news that the SEC has filed a law suit against Goldman Sachs claiming fraud has, at least up to this point, not affected their (Goldman’s) credit ratings."
TheMotleyFool: "The Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday charged S&P with defrauding investors in a sale of indices tied to the stock market.
The SEC said it charged S&P for their failure to disclose conflicts in the publication of S&P500 index. Investors in the index ultimately lost $10 billion between October 2008 and March 2009, the SEC said.
The SEC's civil fraud complaint alleges that S&P allowed Goldman Sachs, who made billions of dollars betting on the credit collapse, to help select securities in the S&P500.
S&P didn't tell investors that Goldman was shorting the S&P500, or betting its value would fall. Also at that time, nobody thought Goldman was a bad guy nor had any doubt that they would short the index most widely held in investors' retirement accounts. When the S&P500's value plunged by 30%, Goldman walked off with $10 billion, the SEC said.
The charge further alleges that S&P deliberately misrepresented the information communicated to investors by bringing in outside analysts such as J. Bogle who approves of the index and preaches that the index can never go down.
S&P continues to hide the fact that Goldman is behind the current rally of the S&P500 -- which is engineered to forerun a double dip. The SEC cannot bring any charges against Goldman because as soon as it does, Goldman will pull the trigger causing the stock market to tumble."
En dat is wat gisteren gebeurde, de beurzen over de hele wereld zakten flink in, en enkel Goldman Sachs steeg. Raar maar waar. Dat was een waarschuwing van Goldman en een vertoon van macht, en bewijst tevens hun manipulatie van de aandelenmarkten.
Zo, nu weet u het, Standard & Poor is een bedrijf dat samenwerkt met Goldman Sachs en hand- en spandiensten levert bij immorele transacties. Standard & Poor is nu bezig met het helpen van Goldman Sachs om Griekenland en de Euro onderuit te halen. S&P was ook betrokken bij de huizenmarktzeepbel. Tot nog toe zijn rechtszaken tegen hen in het voordeel van de fraudeurs uitgevallen. Er komt een tijd dat dat zal veranderen.
TheMarketOracle: "Why do they need to be downgraded? Because the top three or four ratings agencies are ridiculously behind the curve when it comes to letting investors know about problems with the entities whose credit standing and investment outlook they (pretend to) rate. The reason for that appears to be an unresolvable conflict of interest which emanates from how these agencies get paid. They get paid for their services by the companies (and governments) whose performance they rate."
TheNewYorker: "When Barack Obama went to Wall Street last week to make the case for meaningful financial regulation, he took well-deserved shots at some of the villains of the financial crisis: greedy bankers, reckless investors, and captive regulators. But to that list he could have added credit-rating agencies like Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s. By giving dubious mortgage-backed securities top ratings, and by dramatically underestimating the risk of default and foreclosure, the agencies played a key role in inflating the housing bubble. If we’re going to reform the system, fixing them should be high on the list."
Standard & Poor is een frauderend bedrijf dat samenwerkt met andere fraudeurs. Geen enkele fatsoenlijke econoom of bankier hoort de ratings van S&P serieus te nemen. Zo manipuleren grote banken dus de markt, in samenwerking met manipulerende kredietanalysten. Het hoort allemaal bij het kunstmatig creëren van een crisissfeer die in het voordeel werkt van de catastrofekapitalisten. Je kunt het 'disaster capitalism' nu elke dag in zijn werk zien. Als ze op heterdaad betrapt worden beweren ze net als hooligans dat ze niets kwaads gedaan hebben. Ook de NRC trapt erin. De maffia regeert.
Intussen is de aanval op de SEC, de US Securities and Exchange Commission, al ingezet. De ambtenaren van de SEC zouden meer tijd besteden aan het bekijken van porno dan wat anders. Deze kwestie dateert al van 2008 en is een storm in een glas water.
LATimes: "The SEC porn disclosure seems to have arisen at a very convenient moment, when people's attention might otherwise be focused on why Congress is only now getting around to enacting regulations that, weak as they are, should have been in place years ago."