Wall Street's Shadow Market (Video)

Published in Economics  Video  on 9 October 2008


Snippet from CBS's 60 minutes special on the the problems facing Wall Street.

Worth watching as it focuses on some of the less-mentioned causes of the financial crisis, including the role of Credit-Default-Swaps, which were sold alongside the subprime mortgage securities (CDOs) as a way to minimise risk. Unfortunately they did the exact opposite:


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