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To: TheThirdRuffian
Some banks who shouldn’t have lent money to liars may get hosed?

And it pert near brings down the entire global financial order in the process.

21 posted on 06/09/2008 1:59:04 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: dirtboy

Sounds like they need to go broke.


23 posted on 06/09/2008 2:01:49 PM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (McCain is the best candidate of the Democrat party.)
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To: dirtboy
And it pert near brings down the entire global financial order in the process.

Which might have been the whole point behind the "share the risk" part of CDO's. You share the risk so that nobody loses money unless the whole system crashes, then count on the governments to bail the system out

Essentially a financial hostage situation

60 posted on 06/09/2008 3:12:01 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell)
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