Thread: AIG, again
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Old Mar 14, 2009 | 09:34 PM
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Originally Posted by BetterBob
Should have let them fail.
The size and wide ranging effects of credit default swaps would make that almost catastrophic in the global economy. Credit default swaps were essentially unregulated financial devices that virtually nobody truly understood.
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