Jay Heiser

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Toxic Clouds: A virtual pig in a digital poke?

by Jay Heiser  |  February 1, 2010  |  5 Comments

When the global financial services firms melted down in late 2007, much of the blame was attributed to an over-reliance on a highly-leveraged financial abstraction called a Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO). As described in a recent blog entry by Gartner analyst Andrew White, Cheap money, sloshing around the place, feeding an insatiable growth in demand [...]

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