This seemed to be a pretty sound analysis of the current crisis:
http://techtv.mit.edu/file/1448/
In particular, I was surprised to see how reasonable several things I
had thought to be "bad" were. For example, the "securitization" of
mortgages arose from a very reasonable desire to "smooth out" risk. I
hadn't understood their function before.
-- Owen
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