Credit default swaps

What’s a good resource to find out what credit default swaps are and how they work, something that won’t confuse me beyond belief. I am by no means a complete beginner to finance but something that’s easy to understand would be nice.

Thanks!

I assume you have already wikipedia’d CDS?

Not that wikipedia holds absolute truth over what CDSs are but it might be a good place to start [8-|]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96333239

Thank you.