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Zute
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Different day, same shit. You'd think they'd regulate this stuff so we don't have to bail them out again when the $hit hits the fan.
Some of the same investors who made big profits betting against mortgage bonds before the 2007 housing bust have started snapping up the toxic assets. Hedge fund manager Kyle Bass, who made $500 million when subprime debt cratered, is raising a fund to buy them. He’s joining John Paulson, who made $15 billion in 2007 thanks to the housing bust. Goldman Sachs Group has bought the bonds this year. Remarkably, so has American International Group (AIG) —the insurer that had to be rescued by the U.S. government in 2008 after its wagers on risky mortgages went bad.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/wh ... 62012.html
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So let me get this straight, you're complaining that rich investors are buying investments to make money?
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Tudamorf wrote:So let me get this straight, you're complaining that rich investors are buying investments to make money?
Yeah, you must of slept through 2000-2008 if you still don't understand.
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AbyssalMage wrote:Yeah, you must of slept through 2000-2008 if you still don't understand.
Do you know who Kyle Bass is? Or what he did?

Do you really want to prevent investment?
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