‘The Big Short’ Blows Away Bogus Argument That Poor People Caused The Financial Crisis

The Big Short is recommended reading for every judge, attorney, politician, homeowner, investor …generally every Person that deals with or has contact with Wall Street… Directly or indirectly – that means if you have a pension or mutual fund investments – READ THE BOOK and don’t miss the movie.

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Huffington Post:

Nearly a decade ago, I wrote an article about how workers in a peculiar American industry were beginning to worry about subprime home loans. They were Wall Street lawyers who specialized in a dark financial art called securitization — bundling up assets, such as home mortgages, into bonds for sale to investors.

The financial pipeline supplying the loans was beginning to dry up as more and more people fell behind on their mortgages, the lawyers told me.

It was the beginning of a two-year slide that culminated in the failure of Lehman Brothers and brought the American economy to the brink of collapse.

Like most people, and most journalists, I didn’t see it coming. I wrote my story, then unwisely turned to other topics. I had no idea that the entire mortgage industry was wormed through with rot and disease and fraud, that the mortgage bonds that had…

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2 thoughts on “‘The Big Short’ Blows Away Bogus Argument That Poor People Caused The Financial Crisis

  1. I am one of the millions of us that are not deadbeats who did not cause the ruin of the American economy and am battling criminals to save my home from the very criminals who did [THE BANKSTERS]. I have been a hard working strong person just like most all of you. To call me a dead beat is criminal. This is about me.
    http://www.auburn-reporter.com/news/51520752.html
    And this is about me. https://deadlyclear.wordpress.com/2013/10/30/profiles-in-resistance-shelley-erickson-the-social-media-scourge-of-the-banks/
    Spread the word to the public the banks are the deadbeats, along with this movie coming out. The hell you and I are going through, which is terrorism is flat out :WRONG!

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