This appetite for safe securities encouraged Western banks to create synthetic, AAA assets that later turned toxic, with ruinous results.

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And fund managers should reinvest the collateral only in absolutely safe securities.

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It could be a very heavily regulated private insurer (or consortium of insurers) whose assets were invested in safe securities and dedicated to resolving quickly any financial problems.

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