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</html><description>Barry Ritholtz gave some helpful tidbits about CDOs on his blog, The Big Picture. The source is the Bloomberg magazine (unfortunately only for those with terminals can subscribe). From Ritholtz (quoting Bloomberg); &#x201C;Worldwide sales of CDOs&#x2014;which are packages of securities backed by bonds, mortgages and other loans&#x2014;have soared since 2003, reaching $503 billion last year, [&hellip;]</description><thumbnail_url>http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/images/2007/06/26/cdo_buyers.png</thumbnail_url></oembed>

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