Showing videos filed under: standard and poor’s

• Flanders and Dean Baker on Ed Schultz talking Debt Ceilings

  July 30, 2011

  Baker & Flanders talk debt ceilings and credit ratings and who made Standard and Poors our financial managers anyway? On the Ed Show with Ed Schultz, MSNBC, July 27.

  • Dean Baker
  • debt ceiling
  • deficit
  • ed schultz
  • laura flanders
  • ratings agencies
  • standard and poor's

• The F Word: Coal Company Shopping Spree

  April 20, 2010

  Last week, I noted that rating agency Standard and Poors had upgraded Massey Energy from “hold” to a “buy.” Massey's the company that owns the mine where 29 miners were killed in an explosion recently. Now we find out that Standard and Poors were right: Massey's prospects are only going up -- in fact, they're on a shopping spree!

  • coal
  • coal mining
  • cumberland resources
  • explosion
  • f word
  • jeff biggers
  • massey
  • massey energy
  • miners
  • mines
  • mining
  • standard and poor's
  • surface mining
  • The F Word
  • underground mining
  • upper big branch
  • wall street journal