Showing posts with label Credit Default Swaps. Show all posts
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Thursday, February 26, 2009

Hubris Watch II

Bankers should have noted that very small changes in their underlying assumptions could result in very large changes in the correlation number.

Felix Salmon - Wired magizine
Isn't this the technical definition of Chaos - assumptions being the butterfly and correlation numbers being the hurricanes?