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Monday, March 23, 2009
Credit Derivatives
Non-sports post.
Great article from three years ago from Mark Whitehouse of the WSJ:
Others are less sanguine. “The events of spring 2005 might not be a true reflection of how these markets would function under stress,” says the annual report of the Bank for International Settlements, an organization that coordinates central banks’ efforts to ensure financial stability. To Stanford’s Mr. Duffie, “The question is, has the market adopted the model wholesale in a way that has overreached its appropriate use? I think it has.”