Regulators need to be able to put more trust in banks' risk models and rating agencies and supplement them with simple rules about the level of borrowing.

监管者需要对于银行自身的风险模型和评级机构更为信任，并且使用有关借贷限度的简单规则来补充其不足。

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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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The question is whether rating agencies (and investors) should worry more about these countries' ability to pay their debts.

ECONOMIST: Financial markets and the euro

The best that can be hoped for is that shareholders, rating agencies and the media will increase the pressure for boards to be more transparent, and thereby more answerable to their shareholders.

ECONOMIST: Corporate governance in Germany

These factors include: the European sovereign-debt markets in chaos threatening the viability of the euro, the budget deadlock in the U.S. Congress, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke implying yet more monetary ease, rating agencies threatening a downgrade on U.S. debt and Middle East turmoil.

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