August 22nd, 2008

Goldman Sachs on American Insurance Group:

We are concerned over … the impairment of counterparty confidence

Note to Phil Gramm: it’s not really a financial crisis; just a widespread impairment of counterparty confidence. Purely a mental credit crunch.

As financial euphemisms go, “impairment of counterparty confidence” belongs right up there with “involuntary conversion of an aircraft.”

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