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Migeru:

If you sell insurance with no intention of paying out, is that not fraudulent?

That is the advantage for the buyer of having insurance regulated. But since this is not insurance, I guess pretending to insure would be the correct name of the service.

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by A swedish kind of death on Thu Jun 16th, 2011 at 11:24:23 AM EST
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Well, the CDS buyers are also only pretending to buy insurance since
the whole point of CDS swaps was to enable you to treat risky junk as though they were AAA investments and relieve you of the obnoxious reserve requirements


Economics is politics by other means
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jun 16th, 2011 at 11:49:58 AM EST
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Communism: The workers pretend to work and the state pretends to pay them.

Capitalism: CDS buyers pretend to buy insurance and CDS sellers pretend to sell it.

Hm, not as catchy.

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by A swedish kind of death on Thu Jun 16th, 2011 at 04:16:06 PM EST
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