Standard & Poors, the ratings agency that downgraded the United States government Friday, has come under a lot of heat since that call. Some of the criticism is on point. Some of it is partisan sniping. But I noticed something about the critics:

1) One of S&P’s most quoted critics Friday was an investor who owns a competitor to S&P.

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