Along with the New Year should come some hindsight into the debt market horror that was 2007. Looking back, the obvious question will be “How on earth did things get that bad?” As Christian Noyer, governor of the Banque de France, pointed out at Euromoney’s recent Fixed Income Forum in Paris, the direct cost of the sub-prime crisis itself is about $250 billion, which is less than one year of profits for the world’s 40 biggest financial institutions.
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