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| Subject: World's Strangest Financial Instrument -- Why does anyone buy insurance policies that pay off only if the U.S. goes bankrupt? Fri Mar 19, 2010 8:02 pm | |
| Does it make sense to buy insurance against, say, a nuclear attack on Washington—if all the insurance providers' headquarters are inside the Beltway? Of course not. So why do investors buy insurance on U.S. government debt?
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