Discussion Week 6

W6 Discussion "Lean Enterprise"

What are the potential benefits of lean within healthcare? What are the dangers?

Please respond to the initial question by day 5 and be sure to post two additional times to peers and/

or instructor by day 7.

The initial post by day 5 should be 75 to 150 words, but may go longer depending on the topic.

If you use any source outside

of your own thoughts, you should reference that source.

Include solid grammar, punctuation, sentence struct

ure, and

spelling.

W6 Discussion "Global Economic Crisis"

·

Question A

Read the “Global Economic Crisis” story on p. 212. Discuss the credit default swaps and

the effects it had on the financial crisis.

Story P

age 212

The Global Economic Crisis

Insuring with Credit Default Swaps: Let the Buyer Beware!

A credit default swap (CD

S) is like an insurance policy.

The purchaser of the CDS agrees to make annual

payments to a counterparty th

a

t agrees to pay if a particular

bond defaults. During th

e 2000s,

investment banks often

would purchase CDS for

the mortgage

-

backed securities

(MBS) they were

creating

in order to make the securities

more attractive to invest

ors. But how good was this type

of

insurance? As it tur

ned out, not very. For example,

Lehman Brothers might have bough

t a CDS

from AIG

in

order to sell a Lehman

-

created MBS to an investor. But

when the MBS began def

aulting, neither

Lehman nor AIG

was capable of making full restitution to the investor.

Please respond to the initial question by day 5 and be sure to post two additional times to

peers and/or instructor by day 7.

The initial post by day 5 should be 75 to 150 words, but may go longer depending on the topic.

If you use any source outside

of your own thoughts, you should reference that source.

Include solid grammar, punctuation, sente

nce structure, and

spelling.

W6 Discussion "Lean Enterprise"

What are the potential benefits of lean within healthcare? What are the dangers?

Please respond to the initial question by day 5 and be sure to post two additional times to peers and/or instructor by day 7.

The initial post by day 5 should be 75 to 150 words, but may go longer depending on the topic. If you use any source outside

of your own thoughts, you should reference that source. Include solid grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, and

spelling.

W6 Discussion "Global Economic Crisis"

 Question A

Read the “Global Economic Crisis” story on p. 212. Discuss the credit default swaps and

the effects it had on the financial crisis.

Story Page 212

The Global Economic Crisis

Insuring with Credit Default Swaps: Let the Buyer Beware!

A credit default swap (CDS) is like an insurance policy. The purchaser of the CDS agrees to make annual

payments to a counterparty that agrees to pay if a particular bond defaults. During the 2000s,

investment banks often would purchase CDS for the mortgage-backed securities (MBS) they were

creating in order to make the securities more attractive to investors. But how good was this type of

insurance? As it turned out, not very. For example, Lehman Brothers might have bought a CDS from AIG

in order to sell a Lehman-created MBS to an investor. But when the MBS began defaulting, neither

Lehman nor AIG was capable of making full restitution to the investor.

Please respond to the initial question by day 5 and be sure to post two additional times to peers and/or instructor by day 7.

The initial post by day 5 should be 75 to 150 words, but may go longer depending on the topic. If you use any source outside

of your own thoughts, you should reference that source. Include solid grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, and

spelling.