Mortgage Backed Securities are like boxes of chocolates.Criminals on Wall Street stole a few chocolates from the boxes and replaced them with turds. Their criminal buddies at Standard & Poor rated these boxes AAA Investment Grade chocolates. These boxes were then sold all over the world to investors.
Eventually somebody bit into a turd and discovered the crime. Now nobody trusts American chocolates anymore.
A Mister Hank Paulson now wants the American taxpayers to buy up and hold all these boxes of chocolate turds for $700 billion dollars until the market for turds returns to normal.
Meanwhile, Hank’s buddies, the Wall Street criminals who stole all the good chocolates are not being investigated, arrested, or indicted.
Mama always said: “Sniff the chocolates first, Forrest”.
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