we spoke with robert pozen, senior lecturer at harvard business school. our money markets, i think they're relatively safe and after the crieses the sec took several actions that made them a little safer. it reduced the average maturity from 90 days to 60 days. it now requires 97 or more percent of the assets of money market funds to be highly rated. and it also imposed certain liquidity requirements so they would have enough funds to meet redemptions. >> as we learned four nears-- iers ago not all money market funds are created equal. >> s this's absolutely rightment one big division is between money market funds that invest only in treasuries and other government guaranteed securities. now historically that's been a pretty safe group of money market funds. the group of money market funds where the issues have been are called prime funds because they invest in commercial paper of various sorts of companies. >> sure. >> and so i think that we shouldn't take a broad-brush approach. we should really focus on those commercial paper or prime money market fund

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