A side of the subprime mess I wasn't completely aware of
AIG failed not because it bought mortgages or mortgage-backed securities, but rather because it wrote policies, called "credit default swaps", to insure others against the risk of default in mortgage-backed securities. Literally, one of these policies says that the insurer would pay an amount (e.g. $1000) to a creditor if a particular counterparty
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