Subprime Mortgage Scandal

It all started with the sub-prime mortgage scandal.

Facing increasing difficulty in selling mortgage-backed securities – and wanting to preserve quarterly earnings and huge bonuses at any cost - the banks created fraudulent profits by selling CDO products to themselves, as the housing boom began to slow in mid-2006. This excellent Pro Publica article explains how the banks’ self-dealing super-charged the financial crisis.

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