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Redid a 5.9 on the slab, got farther than before on a balancy stretchy slopy misrated 5.8 (it's a 5. 9+ or I'm a monkey), and got one move farther on my 5.10 - project.

In which our heroine begs for death. ashacat 2009

At the core of the recent crisis was the insolvency threat to global banks from large losses in relation to tangible equity capital (total shareholder equity minus preferred stock, goodwill, and other intangibles) from high-risk mortgage backed securities (MBS) that were misrated AAA.

Mark J. Perry and Robert Dell: More Equity, Less Government: Rethinking Bank Regulation Mark J. Perry 2011

But there are serious questions about whether residential mortgage backed securities and downstream CDOs were value-destroying and misrated.

Janet Tavakoli: Timothy Geithner, I Call Your Bluff 2010

If I'd been in the market for el cheapo misrated PSUs, this might be right, but efficiency is important to me.

Power Supply Calculator Figures Out What Size To Buy | Lifehacker Australia 2009

The open question, however, is whether this superconduit will establish realistic prices for the illiquid securities or will serve to mask the real value of misrated assets in order to spread out the pain and buy time for the banks most exposed.

House of Paulson? 2007

And let me here say that Agassiz is only too likely to be misrated and misjudged by those who, though accurate within a limited sphere, fail to grasp in their totality the motive powers invoked in scientific investigation.

Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856

For the biggest beneficiaries of ratings have not been long-term bond investors but the Wall Street firms that used the system to foist misrated debt on them.

The Economist: Daily news and views 2011

When the misrated and mispriced collateral had an "emperor wears no clothes" experience, the losses had to be covered by selling off the securities purchased through the use of that misrated, mispriced collateral.

The Daily News - News 2010

"There's plenty of good companies out there that may be misrated."

BusinessWeek.com -- 2010

"There's plenty of good companies out there that may be misrated."

BusinessWeek.com -- 2010