“Ratings agency Standard and Poor’s (S&P) has claimed the lawsuit filed against it by the US Justice Department was ‘retaliation’ against its decision to downgrade the US’s credit rating.” [BBC; earlier here, here] My Cato colleague Mark Calabria, a specialist on banking and finance issues, sees a pattern at work in which businesses that make life hard for the government get hit with enforcement actions:
Maybe S&P can compare notes with Craig Zucker of Buckyballs fame.
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[…] Is JP Morgan paying an enforcement price for Dimon’s outspoken criticism of regulators? [Prof. Bainbridge; WSJ (reporting claims that "it took Mr. Dimon too long to shed a combative stance with regulators… In April the bank's two top regulators told Mr. Dimon and his board that they had lost trust in management.")] More on Standard & Poor’s claims that it was targeted for retaliation by federal government [Peter Henning, NYT DealBook, earlier] […]