PARIS – Moody’s announcement in November that it had downgraded France’s sovereign-credit rating by one notch from its AAA rating prompted one blogger to poke fun at rating agencies’ tendency either to get things completely wrong or to recognize suddenly a crisis that had long been staring them in the face. The blogger joked, “If this recognition by a rating agency that France has problems is an example of the first failing, a recovery must have begun; if it is an example of the second failing, the country faces a dire reckoning.”
巴黎—11月，穆迪公司宣布将法国主权信用评级从AAA级下调一档，某博客博主讽刺道，评级机构总是要么把事情完全弄错，要么突然识别出在其眼皮底下存在多时的危机。这位博主开玩笑说：“如果说评级机构意认定法国存在问题是第一种情况的例子的话，那么复苏想必已经开始了；如果是第二种情况，那么法国将面对可怕的清算。”