ratings if the member states cannot deliver decisive policy measures to fix the eurozone crisis matia charney cross-talk r t. ok first i'd like to go to richard in washington richard you are like in the rating agencies to a rocket and you've written they act like a drunken sheriff uses his badge in a speech get western to bully intimidate and cajole themselves into ever greater positions of power and wealth well you have an opinion on it. well look at it probably wasn't fair to say they're drunk and share a silly and intimidating look you have a situation where i don't know their drinking habits but you have a situation where by government to crease starting in one nine hundred seventy five these agencies are in within the united states at least recognized quote unquote as a nationally recognized statistical organizations yet at the same time they are for profit corporations publicly traded that benefit from getting more and more business and they go to the financial institutions that they're rating for business so the records that have been uncovered about internal correspondence and and pho