Credit Default Swaps

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• Notice: The Size of Derivatives Bubble = $190K Per Person on Planet

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  Derivatives are unravelling at a fast rate with the start of the “Great Unwind” of the global credit markets. When derivatives unravel significantly, the entire world economy is at peril, given the relatively smaller scale of the world economy by comparison. The derivatives market collapse could make the housing ...
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• Zerohedge On Banning Credit Default Swaps

  
  LILA RAJIVA: The Mind-Body Politic — Authority: 141
  Zerohedge has a technical discussion of why hedge fund manager David Einhorn’s call to ban Credit Default Swaps is essentially a call to dismantle the entire fiat money system. Some of the details elude me, as they’re very technical, but the rest seems right to me. There’s no inherent difference between a credit ...
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• Princeton Economist and Computer Scientists Show that Derivatives Are Inherently Vulnerable to Fraud

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 518
  Princeton Economist and Computer Scientists Show that Derivatives Are Inherently Vulnerable to Fraud As I have previously noted, credit default swaps are destabilizing for the economy. See this . And the models used to evaluate financial instruments – such as the Gaussian copula formula for CDOs – are ...
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• Goldman Sachs: The Grinch who stole Christmas?

  
  Vox Verax — Authority: 153
  QUOTE OF THE WEEK From " Banks Bundled Bad Debt, Bet Against It and Won " by Gretchen Morgenson and Louise Story of the New York Times: “The simultaneous selling of securities to customers and shorting them because they believed they were going to default is the most cynical use of credit information that I have ...
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• New Spitzer Hypocrisy In AIG Case

  
  Big Government — Authority: 820
  Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer took to the New York Times OP-ED page to call for the full release of a AIG corporate e-mails to determine how and why the company crashed. This is the same Eliot Spitzer who stonewalled attempts by the New York State Senate Committee on Investigations and the New York ...
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• Self Dealing Part II: Investigations Started

  
  Livinglies's Weblog — Authority: 131
  NY Times: “When you buy protection against an event that you have a hand in causing, you are buying fire insurance on someone else’s house and then committing arson.” Mr. Lippmann made his pitch to select hedge fund clients, arguing they should short the mortgage market. He sometimes distributed a T-shirt ...
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• Market moves and the lunatic fringe

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 518
  Source: The Australian MPLODING equities, exploding credit default swaps, soaring gold and slumping oil — if, at any time over the past 18 months, it seemed that markets were in the grip of lunacy, it may be because investors are, technically, lunatics. The market mayhem since the global financial meltdown ...
  3 days ago

• On Wall Street, the band plays on

  
  FP Trading Desk — Authority: 550
   I have a friend who’s been hitting the liquor cabinet a bit hard in the run-up to the holiday season. He’s giddy, ebullient, almost slobbery in his enthusiasm. Why is this a problem? Because I don’t know anyone who can give the financial market a ride home. Other people have also noticed that the market’s ...
  3 days ago

• Should Bernanke Be Reconfirmed?

  
  Economix — Authority: 722
  The Senate will decide soon, but the chairman of the Federal Reserve has made his case and the market has already voted, two economists write.
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• The World’s Riskiest Sovereign Debt Issuers

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 662
  With the level of concern mounting about the increase of debt to GDP ratios in countries like Greece and Dubai, many are questioning the stability and safety factor of government debt issued by the developed and developing  countries. But, what current government debt carries the highest risk of...
  5 days ago

• Tavakoli: Time To Claw Back AIG Money Paid To Goldman Sachs

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 743
  Janet Tavakoli Submits: Now that the crisis is over, and given the special circumstances of the crisis, and Goldman’s contribution to value-destroying securitizations, it is in the public interest to claw back the money paid to Goldman Sachs.  AIG did not need to settle for 100 cents on the dollar in ...
  6 days ago

• Reuters Breakingviews: Credit Derivatives That Distort Markets

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Credit-default swaps have led to uncertainties, including in a debt exchange carried out by Cemex, the Mexican cement giant.
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• Which Government Debt Issuers Are Most Likely to Default?

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 669
  Filed under: International markets , Forecasts , Market matters , Politics Investors in developing countries no doubt wonder which countries that issue debt are safe and which ones could default. CMA Datavision, a subsidiary of CME, has put together the " Sovereign Risk Monitor ." The Risk Monitor uses ...
  1 week ago

• A Real War on Xmas, as Outrage Grows Over Excessive Bonuses to Santa’s Elves

  
  The Satirical Political Report — Authority: 480
  In a sign of the substantial divide between Main Street and North Pole Street, a growing chorus of criticism is being directed at the over-sized bonuses doled out his year to the under-sized elves of Santa’s workshop. While the most trying economic times since The Great Depression have created massive ...
  1 week ago

• With Leaders Like These...

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 157
  My current favorite book about the global financial meltdown, aka great recession,  The Sellout , by Charles Gasparino , featured vivid portraits of the bad leadership that lead to the collapse.  For example: Richard S Fuld, Jr , former CEO of Lehman Brothers (now bankrupt) - Fuld had become more isolated ...
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• Is Goldman Spokesman Michael DuVally Lying? Goldmans 47-52 Market In YRC CDS Would Indicate So...

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 743
  Earlier, Goldman Sachs, which has a propensity for pissing pretty much everyone off these days, got in some hot water with the Teamsters , for allegedly "actively soliciting bond trades for clients andunderwriting credit-default swaps to benefit from a failedexchange and resulting bankruptcy." We wont comment on this ...
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• Norway Central Bank Hikes Rates By 0.25% To 1.75%, Gives Clueless Bernanke A Hint

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 743
  While Bernanke is preparing to hit the TV circuit (after hiring Obamas exhausted teleprompter team) to cash in on his Time Warner accolade, even as he is set to do nothing at all about the liquidity bubble forming in every aspect of the economy, the much more logical and efficient country of Norway is doing the right ...
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• Sovereign debt risk in pictures

  
  Telegraph.co.uk Finance Blog — Authority: 613
  Here are a couple of charts from the latest edition of the Institute of International Finance’s excellent “Capital Markets Monitor” which graphically illustrate how markets are pricing the perceived risk of sovereign debt default.The first one (below) shows the cost of insuring against default through credit ...
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• Exxon Buys XTO Energy For $31B – Emii.com

  
  Memmis.com News Agency — Authority: 173
  Reuters Exxon Buys XTO Energy For $31B Emii.com Exxon Mobil is acquiring XTO Energy in a $31 billion all-stock deal, The Wall Street Journal reports. The oil major will additionally assume $10 billion in ... XTO Energy Climbs; Citi Falls Wall Street Journal Exxon Mobil to buy ...
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• Is Selling US CDS A Risk-Free Way To Short The Dollar?

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 743
  There has been much conjecture on whether using CDS is an effective way to hedge against US default risk. Many theoreticians, especially those of the post-March lows variety, have sprung up and are speculating that buying Credit Default Swaps on the US is ultimately a futile and pointless endeavor. The main argument: ...
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