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Old 09-20-2008, 08:14 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by jebmke View Post
That is the part many people missed in all this. The CDS pyramid.
Except its not a pyramid . . . one buyer one seller, one short one long, perfectly symmetrical, every transaction. Just like calls and puts. The major difference is that people are more familiar with them so they don't ascribe all manner of nefarious characteristics to vanilla options.
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