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Credit Default Swaps

Hank Paulson Should Call John Doerr

Adam Hanft | Posted 10.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Government, Mortgages, Paulson, Bailout, Equity Positions, Equity, Economy, Cdos, Bernanke, Credit Default Swaps, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Subprime, Free Market, Liquidity Crisis, Google, Doerr, Business News
Adam Hanft

More than Paulson, more than Bernanke, more than pretty much anyone in Washington I'd trust venture capitalist John Doerr to negotiate my stake in the bailout.

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Fifty Chimpanzees or One Toothless Gorilla

Deborah Senn | Posted 10.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Aig, Deregulation Crisis, Insurance, Congress, GLBA, Depression-Era, Phil Gramm, Policyholders, Economy, Senate Banking Committee, Cds, Credit Default Swaps, Capital Adequacy, Financial Securities, Wall Street, Commodity Futures Modernization Act, State Insurance Regulators, Deregulation, Financial Crisis, Bailout Cost, Gramm Leach Bliley Act, Financial Meltdown, Subsidiaries, Business News
Deborah Senn

AIG's financial meltdown this past week was not the result of failed insurance regulation. (Go ahead. Read that one more time, real slow.)

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Is Your Fund At Risk?

Business Week | Lewis Braham | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Aig, Credit Default Swaps, Pimco, Bill Gross, Cds, T. Rowe Price, Subprime Mortgages, Oppenheimer Strategic Income, Western Asset Core, Pimco Total Return Fund, FInancial Markets, Business News

Complex financial instruments called credit default swaps have roiled the financial markets for months. They're at the heart of the bond insurers' woe...

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