Debt Rattle, January 22 2008

First, an excellent piece by Pam Martens:How Wall Street blew itself upThe private company that would become Wall Street's ticker tape for pricing exotic credit instruments (derivatives on subprime mortgages and credit default swaps) started out as Mark-it Partners in 2001, the brain child of Lance Uggla while he was working for a division of Toronto Dominion Bank, TD Securities. The official