Derivatives for dummies, monsters and aliens

Please don't miss today's Debt Rattle, March 23 2008and That ticking sound on the Street Ilargi: Or should that be Derivatives by Dummies? Never mind, there�s a few bits of useful info here regardless. Still, I get worked up over the neverending attempts, in this case by the New York Times, to portray all the bankers, politicians and greenspans as well-intentioned humanitarians, overcome by