Is the Crystal Ball Clearing? | 148 comments (147 topical, 1 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Is the Crystal Ball Clearing? (4.00 / 3)

Good article.

As I have learnt on ET CDO and CDS has very little in common, except being scams that start with CD. CDO is a way to divide the cash flow from credit and pretend that the debtors can not possibly fail to deliver all on the same time, even if the credit is all crap to begin with. CDS are (apparently) a bet on if a credit will pay or not. So I guess you can take out CDSs on CDOs too, if you want to maximise your scamming potential.

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by A swedish kind of death on Mon Mar 12th, 2012 at 09:59:47 AM EST
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Re: Is the Crystal Ball Clearing? (4.00 / 2)

I guess you can take out CDSs on CDOs too, if you want to maximise your scamming potential

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Mar 12th, 2012 at 10:01:44 AM EST
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Re: Is the Crystal Ball Clearing? (none / 1)

CDSs on CDOs is just the beginning... You can makes CDOs of those again, and then go on to cubic CDOs..

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by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Mon Mar 12th, 2012 at 07:47:14 PM EST
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Re: Is the Crystal Ball Clearing? (none / 1)

Sounds like a sequel to Inception.

by rifek on Tue Mar 13th, 2012 at 01:43:14 AM EST
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