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Michael Fitzpatrick: “How is it the rating agencies get to pick and choose what debt they are going to rate and what debt they are not going…”

On the recordApril 20, 2016
How is it the rating agencies get to pick and choose what debt they are going to rate and what debt they are not going to rate, especially when it affects small investors in the United States of America?
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Michael Fitzpatrick
Pennsylvania

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Fitzpatrick expresses concern about rating agencies' selective rating practices impacting small investors.

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