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CDOs packaged subprime mortgages as investments because monthly mortgage payments seemed reliable under too-big-to-fail assumptions.
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Mortgages
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...But basically, it just means subprime. Right? The idea is that mortgages are a good investment because people have to pay a monthly mortgage,..."
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"...But basically, it just means subprime. Right? The idea is that mortgages are a good investment because people have to pay a monthly mortgage,..."
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"Okay? The problem, of course, is subprime could lead to default. Okay? But at this time in history, no one was concerned about default..."
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"...disaster in 2008 from happening? So you give all these subprime mortgages to people that can't pay them off. How does the bubble not..."
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"...and he would cancel all of that, including student debt, including mortgages, which is and this would be tremendous relief to the American people...."
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"...default. Okay? Meaning, okay, you owe me $1,000. Right? For the mortgage. But you can't pay me. What do I do? Well, I say..."
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"...dollars in this game. Okay? You, there are stupid people buying mortgages from you, right? But then you have even more stupid people who..."
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"...public, right? Why not, why not just, you know, forgive their mortgages? These are just average, hardworking Americans, they need a place to live,..."
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"...American citizen, you're heavily in debt, you know, you have a mortgage, you have credit card debt, you're facing delinquency, your prospects aren't that..."
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"...the university could not pay uh their cars or the house mortgages and they say and the social are like don't worry about it..."
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"...Chinese people at some point. And China does not want to mortgage its future. And that's really the policy of Xi Jinping, to try..."
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"...government, okay? The people with the credit card debt, with the mortgages, they owe $17 trillion. They're never paying that off. So basically, the..."
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"...the impact of central banking, okay? Central banking allows you to mortgage your nation's future in the pursuit of total war. It allows you..."
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