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Credit Default Swaps

by Rafael Rosa on January 25, 2009

Sub-prime and everything that followed has been pretty bad. However, there seems to be another financial instrument that people refuse to go talk about: Credit Default Swaps.
The estimates on the notional amount, or the total face value, of these contracts ranges from $15 trillion to $54 trillion. An article on the New York Times yesterday [...]

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