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Re:The horrifying AAA debt-issuance chart by samstokes on Friday July 15, 2011 @04:38PM (#2768990)
I assumed it meant something like a corporation using regulatory loopholes to get their bonds rated as risk-free (and thus desirable to own) when they would more accurately have been rated risky. Put more simply, borrowing money more cheaply than their creditworthiness should allow.

His point was about the prevalence of AAA-rated products, not their existence.

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