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![Michael Lewis](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1317447168i/776._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“The CDO was, in effect, a credit laundering service for the residents of Lower Middle Class America. For Wall Street it was a machine that turned lead into gold.”
― The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
― The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
![Michael Lewis](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1317447168i/776._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“Take a typical three-hundred-million-dollar CMO. It would be divided into three tranches, or slices of a hundred million dollars each. Investors in each tranche received interest payments. But the owners of the first tranche received all principal repayments from all three hundred million dollars of mortgage bonds held in trust. Not until first tranche holders were entirely paid off did second tranche investors receive any prepayments. Not until both first and second tranche investors had been entirely paid off did the holder of a third tranche certificate receive prepayments.”
― Liar's Poker
― Liar's Poker
![Yanis Varoufakis](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1439626431i/405898._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Notice the irony: in a world ideologically dominated by monetary conservatism, and ringing with long sermons about the perils of printing money, the effective money supply had been turned over to privateers [private banks] bent on flooding the markets with money of their own making [ex. CDOs, which act as stores of value + means of exchange]. How did this differ, really, from handing the Fed’s printing presses over to the mafia? There is not much difference, is the honest answer.”
― The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy
― The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy
![Yanis Varoufakis](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1439626431i/405898._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“The CDOs that sliced up and then spliced together disparate debts belonging to a heterogeneous multitude of families and businesses were put together on the basis of certain formulae, whose purpose was, supposedly, to calculate their value and their riskiness. These formulae were developed by financial engineers working for Wall Street (e.g. for J. P. Morgan, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, etc.). To render the formulae solvable, certain assumptions had to be made. First and foremost was the assumption that the probability that one slice of debt within a CDO would go bad was largely unrelated to the probability of a similar default by the other slices in the same CDO. That is, it was assumed that what happened in 2007–08 was…impossible! That it was unnecessary to factor in the possibility of some crisis, during which Bob lost his house for reasons that increased the chances that Jane would lose her job and eventually also default on her mortgage.”
― The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy
― The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy
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