Re:The horrifying AAA debt-issuance chart
by tptacek on Friday July 15, 2011 @04:22PM
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That's his point. There is no conceivable way that even a large fraction of that debt is AAA. What instead appears to be happening is a vicious circle:
* The finance industry engineers new ways to massage riskier debt into AAA products
* The market eagerly devours all the new AAA debt, building new business models and expanding previous ones based on the increased availability of risk-free products, thus
* The finance industry engineers new ways to massage riskier debt into AAA products
* The market eagerly devours all the new AAA debt, building new business models and expanding previous ones based on the increased availability of risk-free products, thus
* Sparking demand for more AAA debt.