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The Pope talks Derivatives

We don't often talk about the Pope, but the Pope doesn't often talk about credit default swaps. In a wide-ranging critique of finance released by the Vatican today, the Holy See took aim at derivatives and "the growth of a finance of chance, and of gambling on the failure of others, which is unacceptable from the ethical point of view."