Over at Caris, the analysts kept an even higher price target, despite not having their absolute highest rating on the stock.

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The AIG mess, then, is the result of denial about the level of risk, arrogance that the triple A credit rating is an absolute safety belt, greed about compensation that leads to reckless behavior and overall, a level of irrationality that approached insanity.

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We could ask the rating agencies to give up attempting to produce absolute measures of credit quality and instead focus on providing only relative measures.

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