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The Story of the Fall of AIG

March 25, 2009

The introduction to a draft article on the regulation of Credit Default Swaps has an excellent explanation for what went wrong at AIG. It has everything to do with the mispricing of risk associated with mortgage backed securities and little to do with Credit Default Swaps themselves.

HT: Marginal Revolution

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