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Quantitative Easing

…because its own debt has lost market value. The firm’s debt loses market value as the risk of bankruptcy increases. In this case, it is losing value (compared to a…

CDS This Way CDS That Way

…So on the assets side, a CDS has an effect which depends on its notional value and on the liabilities side at it’s market value. Now I’d guess that regulators…

Thought-Experiment: Assets and Securities

…assume that, since the housing bubble burst, I believe that my house has fallen in value by too much. I would understand a 20% decline, but the “market price” that…

Making the Market to Mark to.

…of desperation allowing banks to make up asset values, because given current market prices they would be insolvent. The argument is that current prices are below fundamental value because of…

Social Security has no Unfunded Liability

…the trust fund (the accumulated value of past OASDI taxes less cost) gives a closed group (excluding all future participants) unfunded obligation of $15.2 trillion. This value represents the shortfall…