First, dash over to Salon and read this Tom Tomorrow cartoon. It establishes some context for the bail out proposal. Now let’s look at derivatives — investments (or “bets”) that are meant to spread and reduce portfolio risk. Thanks to RB for forwarding this, it originated here. Analogies are never perfect, but here’s one using [...]
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