What went wrong with our Credit Rating Agencies?

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Subprime the Musical- Series of light-hearted podcasts designed to explain the Subprime Mortgage Crisis. To learn more visit: www.subprimethemusical.wordpress.com E-mail: moneyandsociety@gmail.com In this podcast, I explain what credit rating agencies are and why debt ratings are so important. I also explain how credit ratings ended up screwing up in the mortgage market.