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Credit Crisis: Damaging or Deserved?

Economist calls risk adjustment necessary, if hazardous

Posted Aug 19, 2007 9:17 PM CDT

(Newser) – The Economist takes the long view on the turmoil that has engulfed the financial markets, noting that investors have long wondered whether the "the securitisation of just about every form of debt into a tradable asset" would, in the end, spread risk efficiently or... Read full story »

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