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  • June 13, 2008 at 8:01 PM #13035
    34f3f3f
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    Yet another acronym, and mystifying piece of financial shenanigans, of death defying proportions ($45 trillion). I see Rich brought up the subject a while ago, but it’s hard to see how big a problem this really is, or is likely to be, and who exactly might be affected. Unregulated, under-reserved, and unknown carriers does sound like something that’s just gone before.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/business/17swap.html
    http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/saving-and-banking/article.html?ct=5&in_article_id=433952&in_page_id=7

    June 15, 2008 at 6:42 PM #222841
    barnaby33
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    Lots of numbers get thrown around with how big the market place is. The thing to keep in mind is that the real damage isn’t in the notional value of the CDS’s(which are insurance policies of a sort), but the underlying that they are insuring against. Thats a much smaller, but still staggeringly large number.

    June 15, 2008 at 6:42 PM #222944
    barnaby33
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    Lots of numbers get thrown around with how big the market place is. The thing to keep in mind is that the real damage isn’t in the notional value of the CDS’s(which are insurance policies of a sort), but the underlying that they are insuring against. Thats a much smaller, but still staggeringly large number.

    June 15, 2008 at 6:42 PM #222958
    barnaby33
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    Lots of numbers get thrown around with how big the market place is. The thing to keep in mind is that the real damage isn’t in the notional value of the CDS’s(which are insurance policies of a sort), but the underlying that they are insuring against. Thats a much smaller, but still staggeringly large number.

    June 15, 2008 at 6:42 PM #222989
    barnaby33
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    Lots of numbers get thrown around with how big the market place is. The thing to keep in mind is that the real damage isn’t in the notional value of the CDS’s(which are insurance policies of a sort), but the underlying that they are insuring against. Thats a much smaller, but still staggeringly large number.

    June 15, 2008 at 6:42 PM #223005
    barnaby33
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    Lots of numbers get thrown around with how big the market place is. The thing to keep in mind is that the real damage isn’t in the notional value of the CDS’s(which are insurance policies of a sort), but the underlying that they are insuring against. Thats a much smaller, but still staggeringly large number.

    June 15, 2008 at 8:46 PM #222869
    patb
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    i wory about how this settles at 0 percent loss when a company
    goes down

    June 15, 2008 at 8:46 PM #222976
    patb
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    i wory about how this settles at 0 percent loss when a company
    goes down

    June 15, 2008 at 8:46 PM #222988
    patb
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    i wory about how this settles at 0 percent loss when a company
    goes down

    June 15, 2008 at 8:46 PM #223021
    patb
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    i wory about how this settles at 0 percent loss when a company
    goes down

    June 15, 2008 at 8:46 PM #223034
    patb
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    i wory about how this settles at 0 percent loss when a company
    goes down

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