so that you could have -- for instance, up to cently, you have banks in europe carrying their greek bonds at 100 cents on the dollar, even though in the market they were quoted at 40. however, the cds had to be marked to the 40. so every day, that is reflected in real time. and third, what's important, the way the cds market works is you have the gross amount then and you have the net amount. and the way the net amounts are calculated is institution by institution. if anl institution has $100 million in cds but has brought back $80 million of cds, the net number is only 20 of expouz sure. there's bilateral netting. if a cds, one of the issues in greece or italy defaults, what happens is the institutions go to each other. that eliminates to a large extent the danger of cascading through the system. there is not, however, what would be very good multilateral netting. which means you would be able to net out the entire system across many institutions. then the net exposure would be your only concern. but bilateral does faffect the risk financially. >> the europeans have promised to take over