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To: RochesterFan

The entire credit default swap market is over $60 trillion.

I don’t know how much of that is on mortgages.


24 posted on 09/29/2008 7:39:10 PM PDT by javachip
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To: javachip

Let’s just pretend that the CDS are spread equally. 5% of 60 TLN is 3 TRILLION dollars.

THAT is the problem. For the life of me I do not understand why these are allowed.


45 posted on 09/29/2008 7:58:15 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl (Drill Baby, Drill - Drill Thrawl)
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