Thursday, October 16, 2008

LOL JPMorgan and the CDS market

Of course the evil bastards at JPMorgan created the CDS'

Long celebrated as a way for banks to diffuse their risks, the credit derivatives invented by Demchak’s team have instead multiplied them. The new credit vehicles encouraged banks and other financial firms to take on riskier loans than they should have; helped increase leverage in the global financial system; and exposed a much wider array of financial firms to the risk of default.

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