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blargeyyesterday at 7:35 PM1 replyview on HN

The subprime crisis was a story of perverse financial incentives causing the industry to play along with a fig-leaf statistical excuse for overrating derivative products, not bond raters botching ratings or missing "common-knowledge" info about specific mortgages.

If you want to suggest the subprime crisis as a mechanism for SpaceX bonds getting mispriced, you need to propose a model for how bond evaluators could be operating under a perverse incentive to under-rate it and somehow reap profits from doing so.


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dofmyesterday at 9:13 PM

> If you want to suggest the subprime crisis as a mechanism for SpaceX bonds getting mispriced

I don't? I'm just observing that the bond market got something wrong — through an absolutely industry-wide blindness - that was indeed observed, years beforehand, by non-experts. Not my example, even. Just responding.