So, reporters start calling the other rating agencies-- Standard & Poor's and Moody's and others--and say, are you going to down-rate these guys?

于是记者们开始询问其他的评级机构,像是标准普尔和穆迪,问他们,你们打算给这些公司降级吗

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Those are the two biggest rating agencies in the U.S. today and they're extremely powerful organizations because they --Standard & Poor's also does letter grades, a slightly different system, but almost the same.

如今他们是美国最大的两家评级机构,而且他们是非常权威的组织,标准普尔也进行字母评级,体系上有些区别,但基本相同

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In 1957, they reformulated it and they called it the Standard & Poor 500, but I'm using their long theories, back to 1871, so I can't call it the 500; I'm calling it the Composite.

在1957年,他们将其重建,并命名为标准普尔500指数,但这里用到的是1871年发布的理论,所以不能称之为500,我称之为综合指数

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John Moody died in the 1950s, but after he died, Moody's and Standard & Poor did something that Moody would not have approved of -they started accepting fees from the people they rate; some people think that you shouldn't do that.

约翰·穆迪在20世纪50年代去世,他死后,穆迪公司和标准普尔做了一些,穆迪绝对不会允许的事情...,他们开始接受被评级者所缴纳的费用,有些人认为不应该这样做

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Home prices are falling at the highest rate we've ever seen. I have my own index s Case-Shiller indexes the Standard & Poor's Case-Shiller indexes and we announced our indexes yesterday.

房价正在以我们从未见过的速度下跌,我有自己的一个指数,名字叫The，Standard&Poor’,而且昨天我们公布了我们的指数。

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