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CDO World: As the housing boom began to slow in mid-2006, and faced with increasing difficulty in selling mortgage-backed securities, the banks created fraudulent profits by selling CDO products to themselves, reports Pro Publica. Quarterly earnings and huge bonuses had to be preserved at any cost.