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User Info Florida Gov't Won't Accept Loss!!!; entered at 2007-12-01 13:20:26
Ajas
Posts: 1650
Registered: 2007-08-28 Seattle, Zootown
So this is what deflation looks like.....

And this is the beginning of a long darkness. I posted this article once before when sushi mentioned. OH MY GOD.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/marketsmag....

By David Evans
Bloomberg Markets July 2007

Bear Stearns Cos., the fifth-largest U.S. securities firm, is hawking the riskiest portions of collateralized debt obligations to public pension funds.

At a sales presentation of the bank's CDOs to 50 public pension fund managers in a Las Vegas hotel ballroom, Jean Fleischhacker, Bear Stearns senior managing director, tells fund managers they can get a 20 percent annual return from the bottom level of a CDO. ``It has a very high cash yield to it,'' Fleischhacker says at the March convention. ``I think a lot of people are confused about what this product is and how it works.''
2007-12-01 13:20:26