14 December 2008

Dilbert And The Minority Mortgage Meltdown

Takuan Seiyo had an important article in September called The Case Of The “Disappeared” Subprime Minority Borrower,in which he explained how Wall Street came to be invested in bad mortgages on a large scale, and what “Mortgage-backed Securities” andCollateralized Debt Obligations” are, as well as what Wall Street means by atranche.” This is a graphic representation of the same idea:
Dilbert.com