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The big raters have missed every market implosion dating at least as far back as the New York City financial crisis in the mid 1970s, and continuing through the Orange County Calif bankruptcy in 1994, the bond market collapse in 1998 that led to the bailout of the giant hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management, and of course to the most recent, mother-of-all collapses, the 2007-2008 financial crisis.

Charles Gasparino: Will Warren Buffett Speak Out on Worthless Ratings Agencies? 2010

The big raters have missed every market implosion dating at least as far back as the New York City financial crisis in the mid 1970s, and continuing through the Orange County Calif bankruptcy in 1994, the bond market collapse in 1998 that led to the bailout of the giant hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management, and of course to the most recent, mother-of-all collapses, the 2007-2008 financial crisis.

Charles Gasparino: Will Warren Buffett Speak Out on Worthless Ratings Agencies? 2010

Government as spender of last resort is the mother-of-all Ponzi schemes.

"All that really happened here is..." Ann Althouse 2009

The legendary singer and music icon to millions of people across the world was on the cusp of the mother-of-all showbiz comebacks after an unproductive eight years walking in the shadows as a shambolic figure, damaged by accusations of child abuse and his addiction to self-harm by plastic surgery.

Deborah Hobson: Rumours, Lies and Truth: Life After Death of "King of Pop' 2009

And finally, we have the mother-of-all budget abuses: the military budget itself.

The Great Debate of 2008 2008

Even a cat that coughed up the mother-of-all hairballs every week!

PSA: When learning to knit, don't make things that come in pairs StyleyGeek 2007

Mr. Rangel's mother-of-all tax increases is another of the same, tired, "tax-the-rich" revenue-raising schemes of past Democratic Congresses.

The Mother of All Tax Hikes 2007

A production company hopes to use DNA to finally identify Albert Johnson, "a gun-toting trapper who led the RCMP on the mother-of-all police chases across the Arctic during the depths of the Great Depression."

Like a Community Barn-Raising, Only Different 2007

A production company hopes to use DNA to finally identify Albert Johnson, "a gun-toting trapper who led the RCMP on the mother-of-all police chases across the Arctic during the depths of the Great Depression."

Archive 2007-08-01 2007

Just in time, too, because New Orleans is having the mother-of-all book events.

Archive 2005-03-01 2005