Are Sovereign CDS Evil?

By Stefan Isaacs

Following on from Jim’s Sovereign CDS Q&A blog (see here) I came across this chart at zerohedge.com.  Whilst I can’t vouch for its accuracy, the chart shows that the actual net amount of outstanding sovereign CDS contracts, relative to outstanding government debts, are actually very small. That would seem to add weight to Jim’s argument that the  pressures faced by governments are borne ‘of fiscal imprudence and a lack of will to resolve this,’ rather than the sole work of evil speculators.

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Stefan Isaacs

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