The Coming Carbon Bubble     Text Size   Published: Monday, 13
Jul 2009 | 1:32 PM ET By: Martha C. White|The Big Money
Remember the nasty real estate meltdown? All those investors
snapping up CDOs and CDSs and other acronyms nobody could really
keep straight, but no one cared because we were all going to
make a killing. And then the bottom dropped out of the market
when somebody realized we had no idea what any of these exotic
entities were actually worth but we started to worry that it
might not be nearly as much as what we'd been told. So then the
government had to come along and give the banks a ton of money
and we're all OK now as long as you don't look at the national
debt or foreclosure rate or a host of other still-dismal
numbers.   Well, it's good to see we've learned our lesson.
We'll never get carried away like that again! Except that we
might. If you thought the real estate mess was bad, fasten your
seat belts and tuck all personal belongings inside the car
because the carbon market is set to take