SEC Investigates Magnetar, Sponsor of CDO Program That Pumped Up the Subprime Bubble
Readers of this blog may know that we broke story in our book ECONNED of the role that the hedge fund Magnetar played in increasing the severity of the subprime bubble through its program of hybrid CDOs (meaning composed of actual tranches of subprime bonds plus credit default swaps). To recap: Magnetar embarked on an […]
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