2008 Financial Crisis – Causes and historical context
Tom Spencer
NOVEMBER 17, 2018
The MBS market boomed due to a general consensus that property prices would always go up, mortgages were extremely unlikely to fail on a large scale, and the fact that credit rating agencies were willing to give AAA-ratings to the senior slices of CDOs even if the underlying pool of mortgages were all “subprime”.
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