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Peterson drafts legislation to end speculation in derivatives

Posted Feb 3rd 2009 6:00PM by Connie Madon (RSS feed)
Filed under: International Markets, Good news, Market Matters, Financial Crisis

Originally a CDS (credit default swap) was a protection against the default of an underlying bond, usually a mortgage. It was a fine idea.

But now enter the speculators who developed a scheme to trade these CDS's independent of the underlying mortgage. This has developed into a $30,000 billion dollar trading market. It is this market that is destroying world economies like they are twigs snapped in the wind.

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