Part of the problem is that the rating agencies were rating their securities that they were investing in as AAA, in many cases.
存在的一个问题是，信用评级机构对他们投资的大部分债券都给予了 AAA 的评级。
The other question is whether the rating agencies are up to the task.
另一个疑问是评级机构是否胜任这一任务。
The rating agencies are rushing to catch up with this grim reality.
评级机构正匆忙地应付这个可怕的事实。
What would have happened to the rating agencies if they had properly done their jobs?
如果评级机构恰当的履行了自己的职责，会发生什么呢？
It is easy and appropriate to blame the rating agencies for lapses in their credit judgments.
指责评级机构信用判断失误是容易和恰当的。
If you want to pick things to disapprove of, the rating agencies would be far down on the list.
如果你想要证明机构的误处，信用机构将不会在你考虑范围之内。
If the rating agencies are using the word you just used (default), it is not part of my vocabulary.
即使评级机构使用你刚才用到的词(违约)，它也不在我的词汇当中。
Greece, Spain and Portugal have already suffered debt downgrades by the rating agencies; Ireland may follow.
债务评级机构已经下调了希腊、西班牙和葡萄牙的主权债务评级；爱尔兰可能步其后尘。
The rating agencies are usually paid to rate companies and their products by those very same companies.
通常，信用评价机构不会无偿对公司及其产品作出评价。
[font=Times New Roman][color=#000000]The second is the rating agencies, the new arbiters of credit risk.
[color=#000000]第二股力量是评级机构，信贷风险新的仲裁者。
If the rating agencies have been careful not to sound the alarm, the same is true of Italy's politicians.
如果说评级机构小心翼翼，不发出警报，那意大利的政客也是如此。
I think that going forward, both the rating agencies and the Banks will be very important in our society.
我认为这会有效果，信用评级机构和银行，都将会在我们的社会中扮演很重要的角色。
This arrangement "ends the insanity of being hostage to the rating agencies", says a banker who worked on the deal.
负责这项交易的银行家认为这一协议“结束了作为信用评价机构抵押品的郁闷”。
Some people think that the rating agencies have allowed a kind of moral hazard to creep into their organization.
有些人认为，信用评级机构，已经让某种程度的道德风险，渗透到他们的机构中。
Given the rating agencies' mandate is to inform investors of credit risks, it's hard to imagine a more colossal failure.
鉴于向投资者告知信用风险是评级机构的职责所在，因此很难想象还会有比这更大的失职行为。
More broadly, the rating agencies have never given us any reason to take their judgments about national solvency seriously.
更广泛地说，评级机构从来没有给出任何理由，让我们认真对待他们关于国家偿债能力的判断。
But in such cases the rating agencies were just following the markets, which had already turned on these problem debtors.
但是，在这种情况下下，评级机构仅仅是跟踪市场，市场提前于评级机构，已经注意到那些存在问题的债务国。
The role of rating agencies will also come under scrutiny, bringing to the fore the question of who rates the rating agencies?
评级机构的作用也将受到仔细审视，从而使以下问题进入人们的视野：谁来评估评级机构？
Even as the rating agencies busily revise rich countries' creditworthiness downwards, Indonesia's has been going the other way.
尽管当前很多发达国家的信用都被等级评定机构调低，印尼却不断增加。
Not surprisingly the rating agencies are nervous: this week one downgraded Ireland and another gave warning it could do so.
这就无怪乎信用等级评价机构的担忧了，本周一个信用机构降已经低了爱尔兰的信用等级，另一个也警告说他们可能采取相同的做法。
Clever people, abetted by the rating agencies, set out to pass off poor credit as AAA, because they stood to make a lot of money.
受到评级机构煽动的聪明人，宣布要终止AAA差级信用，因为他们想要赚更多的钱。
Yet, under the gaze of the rating agencies, he has not given up his efforts to curb the budget deficit and improve competitiveness.
然而，受制于评级机构的虎视眈眈，他并未放弃为降低预算赤字与提升竞争力而做出努力。
Rather than standing back and observing this from the sidelines, the rating agencies got involved in structuring these products.
评级机构并没有以第三方的角度来远离并观察这些，而是参与到产品的建构中。
Every crisis begets finger-pointing, and the blame now isfalling on the rating agencies that helped structure these exotic instruments.
每次危机都会有推委和指责，而这次则是为这些稀奇古怪的衍生工具评级的机构不幸背了黑锅。
The rating agencies' dim view of German assets over the past few years, based on the poor economy, was a further incentive to look west.
评级机构过去数年中对德国资产所持的怀疑是基于其低迷的经济状况产生的，这也说明其想对西欧投以更进一步的关注。
Debts where default is a possibility are rated speculative grade (better, and more aptly at this point, known as "junk") by the rating agencies.
可能出现拖欠的债务都被评估机构评为投机性(更为人知也是更适宜的是“垃圾级”)。
Debts where default is a possibility are rated speculative grade (better, and more aptly at this point, known as "junk") by the rating agencies.
可能出现拖欠的债务都被评估机构评为投机性(更为人知也是更适宜的是“垃圾级”)。
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