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To: RMF who wrote (33559)3/2/2009 11:21:52 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 71588
 
Even the *worst* of the over-leveraged banks were almost as nothing when compared to the unmitigated DISASTER of the totally unregulated, un-collateralized markets made in Credit Default Swaps by such market stalwarts as AIG.

That is where the WORST of the systemic risk (now threatening to pull down the world's real economies) came from. :-(