{"id":27680,"date":"2011-08-06T20:00:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T20:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/barry_ritholtz-10_questions_about_last_nights_sp_downgrade\/"},"modified":"2011-08-06T20:00:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T20:00:33","slug":"barry_ritholtz-10_questions_about_last_nights_sp_downgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27680","title":{"rendered":"Barry Ritholtz&#8211;10 Questions About Last Night&#39;s S&#038;P Downgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. The change in trajectory of US debt was in service of Banks: It began with TARP, and continued with every other bailout\/stimulus\/economic plan. What was S&#038;P\u2019s role in creating that crisis?<\/p>\n<p>2. How will non-US investors (Private and Central Banks) view the downgrade?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>9. The Rating Agencies were downgraded by Dodd-Frank, with all regulatory and legal references to be removed. Was S&#038;P\u2019s move retaliatory?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ritholtz.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/10-question-about-sp-downgrade\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. The change in trajectory of US debt was in service of Banks: It began with TARP, and continued with every other bailout\/stimulus\/economic plan. What was S&#038;P\u2019s role in creating that crisis? 2. How will non-US investors (Private and Central<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27680\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,670,589,595,592,149,617,616,151,667,618,599,669,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-budget","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-credit-markets","category-currency-markets","category-economy","category-house-of-representatives","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-senate","category-stock-market","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}