Greenspan: If you can't blame the borrowers, blame the investor — anyone but the real culprits
October 23, 2008 Alan Greenspan was wrong today when he said that investors did not look critically enough at the ratings. Finance is based upon trust, and these companies had been trustworthy for many decades. Here is the real story. The very notion of pooling is and was illegal. Allocation of payments, recording statutes, recording …