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Friday, June 21, 2013

Rolling Stone writes about fraud and puffery

Matt Taibbi on puffery, fraud, and whether ratings agencies can defend their "integrity" while also claiming that it was dumb for any investor to have relied on them.  (Then what are the ratings for?)
Posted by Rebecca Tushnet at 1:51 PM
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