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To: dybdahl who wrote (16029)	1/4/2009 12:05:13 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71405

It seem illogical to me, why you want the amount of CDS risk to be much larger than the total sum of values that can be lost, Impossible to talk to you. Who says I 'want' anything? It seems to me that the way I describe things is the way they probably are, but I cannot vouch for their reliability because no one I think really knows. You apparently do not comprehend that the web of derivatives is so complex that single events are covered by multiple instruments, thereby magnifying losses. One domino falling and all that. Please, please, go read something by Das, anything, please acquire some background rather than inventing it. At SI, go here, a good but unappreciated place. Subject 22689 By the way, I use notional not nominal values, which may source of confusion. Why notional? Because in blow-ups, they are the ones that make matter.