Subprime Mortgages

Subprime Mortgages

How will subprime mortgages, and more importantly defaults of subprime mortgages impact the real estate market as well as the US economy as a whole?

Two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers who made very, very bad bets on subprime mortgages, Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, were found not guilty of securities fraud in Brooklyn federal court on Tuesday. The verdict invites a look back at how the history of the financial crisis is being written in real time. William D. Cohan's riveting account of the fall of Bear Stearns, "House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall...  
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