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umichguy | 6 years ago

Reminds me of all the scenes from the movie "The Big Short."

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onlyrealcuzzo|6 years ago

For anyone interested in the growth of CDOs (and the composition of them) leading up to 2008 -- here's some charts:

http://fcic.law.stanford.edu/resource/staff-data-projects/cd...

Basically, by 2006, CDO originations were ~$250B. It took about 4 years for originations to get that large, and by 2008, there was probably less than ~$600B total.

GDP was ~$14.7T.

If history repeats itself, this is the beginning of the end. Not the end. But anything can happen. Who knows?