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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory
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To: ild who wrote (61652)5/22/2006 7:49:09 PM
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Interactive brokers has worried me sick since they started offering those 8% 6-month notes. They don't say much about what they're used for, but I doubt they have to. My guess is that it's almost certainly for hedge fund loans.

So, if there's a big hedge fund implosion, IB could be out those loans pretty fast. I'm worried about the potential for that to drive them into bankruptcy.

Does anybody know a good way of determining the safety of brokerages?

BC
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