Better Off Unemployed
Aug. 8th, 2011 10:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitouthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deven_Sharma
As a sample of his work product:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703959804575006694196038802.html
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2011-08-08-s-and-p-downgrade-not-politics-sharma-says_n.htm
He has a job running an operation whose statements -- whether in the form of ratings or press releases, op-eds or quotes to the press -- have direct and, honestly, quite predictable effects. And he has not produced those statements in a responsible way, but rather denied responsibility for those predictable effects.
"The market could be reacting to the fact there is a slowdown in economic growth. It could be reacting to what's happening in Europe. It could be what's happening in the U.S. There are multiple factors that…contribute to how the market reacts."
Someone should fire him. The next person might be worse, but at least they'd be different.
As a sample of his work product:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703959804575006694196038802.html
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2011-08-08-s-and-p-downgrade-not-politics-sharma-says_n.htm
He has a job running an operation whose statements -- whether in the form of ratings or press releases, op-eds or quotes to the press -- have direct and, honestly, quite predictable effects. And he has not produced those statements in a responsible way, but rather denied responsibility for those predictable effects.
"The market could be reacting to the fact there is a slowdown in economic growth. It could be reacting to what's happening in Europe. It could be what's happening in the U.S. There are multiple factors that…contribute to how the market reacts."
Someone should fire him. The next person might be worse, but at least they'd be different.