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Crisis explainer: Uncorking CDOs

Paddy Hirsch Oct 3, 2008
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Marketplace Senior Editor Paddy Hirsch gives a bubbly explanation of the intricacies of “collateralized debt obligations” — those financial instruments that got us into this financial mess.

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