How does billions of dollars of mortages written against property become trillions of dollars of debt upstream to the big investment banks. No body is talking about t he leverage involved here from the base mortage to AIG's $trillions in liabilities that they cannot cover. I say let them fold. Soon the market on the ground will buy up the foreclosed properties and the paper will clear at various levels of loss. The leverage involved goes up in smoke.
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