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Originally Posted by JeremyD View Post
Not just the volume of the CDS but also the rating of the paper. Really the folks that rated this paper as investment grade A-AAA should be brought up on fraud charges. There are many hands in the til.
Just a point of clarification, there are a lot of acronyms being thrown around here...there is no rating on CDS (credit default swap). There are ratings on the "underlying" bond issue, but no rating agency rates a swap contract, these are unique transactions between 2 parties.

CDOs and CMOs are another issues...
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