Agency Quote by Matt Taibbi

Ratings agencies are highly conflicted, unimaginative dupes. They are blissfully unaware of adverse selection and moral hazard. Investors should never trust them.

— Seth Klarman

People looked to rating agencies to do the work for them.

— Howard Lutnick

Ratings translate into corporations, corporations that need a profit statement this quarter that's larger than the last.

— Norman Lear

When we get involved in the ratings, then we're doing the network's job. We need to focus on our work.

— William Petersen

The whole financial industry is consolidating in the United States.

— Sanford I. Weill

It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial…

— Matt Taibbi

We're never pleased when our ratings aren't growing at the rate we would like, but we understand that circumstances will always have us going…

— Brian France

This is how good movies get made and always have: from the gut instinct of the financiers, not just by committee and research.

— Alexander Payne

We have new rules that give shareholders the ability to vote on executive compensation. We have new rules for asset-backed securities. We have new…

— Mary Schapiro

“As always, behind the flow of money necessary for such mergers and acquisitions were the banks. Once there were hundreds of banks in America,…

— Jim Marrs

From coast to coast, the FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission have ensnared people not only at hedge funds, but at technology and pharmaceutical…

— Preet Bharara

I do suspect my star ratings average too high. But, of course, star ratings are ridiculous. I'm stuck with them.

— Roger Ebert