The solution that Congress adopted for credit-rating agencies in the Dodd-Frank financial reform law has two elements.

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In fact, though, Congress has already produced a solution, albeit directed at different market actors: credit-rating agencies.

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Instead, it spoke in dire terms of the possibility that America could lose its AAA credit rating, and advocated spending cuts, spending caps, and a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution as the solution.

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