Date: December 9th, 2008

Unlicensed insurance: Credit Default Swaps (CDS’s): Part 2, no sympathy for the devils?

9 December, 2008 (11:28) | Capital markets, Finance, Innovations, Subprime, US News | No comments

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
 
“I bet he croaks soon.”
“We bet he won’t.”
– The essential bargain in Credit Default Swaps
 

I think he’s very ill – lead poisoning?
 
As we saw yesterday, even as a Credit Default Swap has something in common with a life-insurance policy on a third party, it’s also a risk concentrate and risk shifter.  As [...]