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Where it's two parties
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and there's no information asymmetry, right?
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Where there are two parties with symmetrical information.
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The most foundational aspect of a market system is that
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buyer and seller are equipped to keep each other honest.
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And where there is a huge information asymmetry,
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we invent things like Moody's
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or appraisals of real estate as a substitute,
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a way of creating or simulating information symmetry.
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But if the third party agencies act like sellers
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to the side that pays them,
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the information asymmetry is