1). Structured finance allows general risk in all debts to be unbundled into
tranches in a hierarchy of credit rating,
2). allowing even the most conservative to participate in the debt bubble by
holding the supposing safe low-risk tranches.
3). But the safety of these low-risk tranches
>>2 paragraphs; seven sentence explanation of financial crisis<<
I said back in 2001 that so-called risk diversification and management
just meant the crash would be big next around (that was on Duff
Henwood's hostile LBO Talk list). Some wanted to believe that risk had
been eliminated. Duff himse