Research Zeitgeist: Top Posts and Hot Topics
With news about once obscure monoline bond insurers hitting the front pages of even general interest newsapers, it’s hardly suprising that people continue to turn to Research Recap for a better understanding of the complex debt instruments that got them into trouble.
Fitch Ratings’ Primer on Credit Default Swaps was the most-read post of the week, and Primers on Structured Investment Vehicles and Subprime mortgages also were widely read.
Standard & Poor’s warning that Bond Insurer Downgrades Could Lead to Bank Downgrades and the CreditSights analysis of S&P’s gloomy outlook for monoline and bank credit ratings made the top six.
The fate of the monolines remains a hot topic, and a rapidly moving target: The Big Picture offers a useful (and blunt) analysis of the most recent developments. Meanwhile, the FT’s Alphaville details the latest rescue plans and offers a new take on long-time monoline critic Bill Ackman.
Also popular during the latest week were a pair of academic analyses featured by The Economist pointing to securitization as the prime suspect in the subprime meltdown.
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