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Daily Archives: March 23rd, 2008

“Moving paper fantasy” hits real wall

Last month I mentioned an article I read about “credit default swaps”, another off the books sort of financial chicanery that might be lurking in the background ready to cause financial havoc. These are, as best as a I understand, freely tradable credit “insurance policies”, which, for the holders, amount to bets that insured loans […]