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Strategies & Market Trends : The coming US dollar crisis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Real Man who wrote (17139)2/2/2009 5:28:52 AM
From: zamboz  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 71423
 
diffuse the bomb through nationalization (cancel
derivatives)
for national security, yes. perhaps along the lines of carranza's hypothetical legal argument that they are still essentially insurance and should be held to those standards. side bets might get their principle back, genuine insurance situations could get allowable insurance limits.



To: Real Man who wrote (17139)2/2/2009 12:15:01 PM
From: NOW  Respond to of 71423
 
lets hope this does not happen but i tend to agree with you.