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		<title>No More CDS? At All? Ever?  Maybe So.</title>
		<link>http://tom-davis.us/2009/11/07/no-more-cds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s CDS (as in Credit Default Swaps), not the computer disks or Certificates of Deposit.  But David Einhorn the well-known chief of Greenlight Capital has come out unequivocally against their existence in a letter to his investors documented in this FT Column.  I never thought I would see this coming from a well-known hedge fund [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An R-squared Look at the Iranian Election Results</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So this is what fraud looks like.  From data released by the Iranian Interior Ministry.
http://tehranbureau.com/2009/06/13/faulty-election-data/
With a reconstruction of the crime here.
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		<title>Huge Derivatives Market Likely To Soon Be A Much More Efficient</title>
		<link>http://tom-davis.us/2009/05/14/otc-derivatives-likely-to-soon-be-exchange-traded/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 16:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg reports this morning (in a poorly written lead) that SEC Chairwoman Mary Shapiro wants to take OTC derivative trading onto an exchange.
Which, it has been discovered, in the case of corporate bonds, drives down broker/dealer trading profits.  But here&#8217;s how Bloomberg writes the first sentence.
U.S. regulators may impose the same price reporting and transparency requirements [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Broken Parts of Our Capital Markets, part one</title>
		<link>http://tom-davis.us/2009/05/01/broken-parts-of-our-capital-markets-part-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 12:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post could be a very long, but I&#8217;ll keep it short.  All I can do is chip away and start cataloging the most broken parts of our financial system.  Where do you start when there are so many candidates?  I&#8217;ve long thought that the rating agencies ought to be high on the list, and [...]]]></description>
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