Ratings agencies major cause of economic meltdown
 

From the "no fucking kidding" department, but now with documented evidence. The whole time Congress and the White House were busy pointing fingers over the US losing our AAA rating, all I was thinking was, "Why do we care what S&P thinks anymore? They're the ones who got us here in the first place..."

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-la....html?page=all

Long read, but if your blood pressure is low this will fix it.

Dumb. Talk about "duh"