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Credit Default Swaps

Thanks to credit default swaps, secrecy has become the organizing principle of modern debt markets.

How Goldman Dissembled In The Wall Street Journal
A Glimpse At Goldman’s Mortgage Trading and the Pump And Dump Scheme Known As ABX
FCIC Shows That Most Synthetic CDOs Were Designed To Fail
AIG Took Subordinated Pieces of CDOs It Insured
Dirty Little Secrets About Goldman’s Collateral Calls on AIG
An S.E.C. Lawsuit Does Little to Strip Away the Secrecy Surrounding Certain AIG CDOs
Goldman’s Half Trillion With a Hedge Fund Is Too Big to Ignore
Why Goldman Got the S.E.C. to Back Off
Deciphering Joe Cassno’s Lies Before The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
Goldman’s CDOs Had Nothing to Do With the Real Estate Bubble
Hard Evidence of Goldman’s Corrupt Intent and the Myth of the Sophisticated Investor
John Paulson Defends His Toxic CDOs by Insulting Everyone’s Intelligence
Goldman’s Blueprint for Dumping Toxic Assets: How These CDOs Were Designed to Fail
Do Business Schools See Why CDOs Are Compared to “Springtime for Hitler”?
Bloomberg Takes a First Step at Piercing the Veil of Secrecy Surrounding CDOs
The CDOs That Destroyed AIG: The Big Short Doesn’t Quite Reveal What They Knew and When They Knew It
Suspicious Timing Surrounding The “De-risking” of AIG’s Toxic Obligations
The Times Story On Goldman’s Role in AIG’s Downfall Is More Damning When Placed In Context
AIG’s Banks: Market Makers or Flippers of CDOs?
Sham Transactions That Led to AIG’s Downfall: The Ugly Truth Was Hiding In Plain Sight
The Dirty Little Secret About AIG’s AAA Pyramid Scheme
The Moral Compass Missing From The Greatest Trade Ever
The Wall Street Journal Glosses Over the Pitfalls of Credit Default Swaps
Time Rewrote History With “25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis”
Wall Street’s Meltdown: An Executive Summary

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