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Rating the ratings agencies: Annette Heuser at TEDGlobal 2013

Rating the ratings agencies: Annette Heuser at TEDGlobal 2013

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Sovereign credit ratings are kind of like Consumer Reports for nations — just as people read car magazines or washing machine reviews before buying, investors read ratings to determine how to invest their money. Sovereign credit ratings assess a country’s debt and its ability and willingness to repay it. And whether citizens of a country realize []