Date: December 10th, 2008

Unlicensed insurance: Credit Default Swaps (CDS’s): Part 3, play at your own risk

10 December, 2008 (11:04) | Capital markets, Finance, Innovations, Subprime, US News | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the previous Part 1]
 
“I bet you’re solvent.”
“I’ll take that bet.”
– The essential bargain made by a CDS buyer and seller
 

It’s just like the first time I came here, isn’t it?
We were talking about automobile insurance, only you were thinking about murder.
 
By now we’ve seen, via a useful Economist article, [...]