damn straight
So at least now we know the highest form of capitalism isn’t imperialism any more. It’s blind panic.
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credit crunch: wtf?
In economics but sexy, finance but sexy, wtf? on 12 October, 2008 at 7:44 pm
damn straight
Once again, This American Life explains how giving mortgages to people with no money turned into the end of Western capitalism.
The show explores how the commercial credit market froze up, essentially crippling every major business in the Western world; how toxic financial instruments infected the entire system. Also: why the $700billion was mostly a reaming.
sub-prime mortgags: wtf?
In economics but sexy, finance but sexy on 12 October, 2008 at 6:59 pm
they know
I still have no fucking idea. But US radio programme This American Life has an incredibly colourful, in-depth explanation about just how it started. It’s pretty much identical to what happened with buy-to-let mortgages here.
They interview people at the epicentre of the shit storm, including a young barman-turned-mortgage salesman who, at the height of the cheap mortgage boom, was making, $70, 000 a week in commissions.
