House of Cards Economy
Via Boing Boing
Mortgages aren’t the only financial instruments that are getting turned into securities these days.
In this video, NPR’s Marketplace Senior Editor Paddy Hirsch explains how companies make money by buying credit card debt and bundling it.
How credit cards become asset-backed bonds from Marketplace on Vimeo.
Thanks George Bush & Tom Carper & Mike Castle & Pete Dupont! Super bang up job you guys did creating this mess.
Gee, what could go wrong? It’s not like the debtors could all default at once, right?
Citibank is the best! They took a few billion from the public monie trough and are buying up “toll roads in Spain, Costa Rica, and Brazil!
When will some of these white collar crooks, bankster/gangsters being looking out from the inside of a prison cell.
Banks claim that the american people are not good investments. Fearful we won’t be paying our loans and credit cards. So many in bankruptcy, foreclosure or job loss…we are not good investments…onward to China, India, Japan, its a globalization baby. Ain’t disaster capitalism grand!
Somewhere, a wingnut blogger is spinning this into just one more failure of Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and the CRA.
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