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My Manhattan Project: How I helped build the bomb that blew up Wall Street
An interesting article sent to me by Victor Vorsky:
How I helped build the bomb that blew up Wall Street.
How I helped build the bomb that blew up Wall Street.
I have been called the devil by strangers and “the Facilitator” by friends. It’s not uncommon for people, when I tell them what I used to do, to ask if I feel guilty... I wrote the software that turned mortgages into bonds.
Tags: mortgage backed securities, mortgage securitization, rmbs, software
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Permalink Reply by Joe Philipson on -
dude, you got all the right keywords on there to get techhui on the cia watchlist... hmmm
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Permalink Reply by Daniel Leuck on -
I'd be insulted if we weren't on the CIA watch list ;-) If they are watching us, I pity the poor sod assigned to suffer through my copious and painfully boring emails.
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Permalink Reply by Joe Philipson on
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Daniel Leuck said:
haha, that's true... poor guy.I'd be insulted if we weren't on the CIA watch list ;-) If they are watching us, I pity the poor sod assigned to suffer through my copious and painfully boring emails.
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Permalink Reply by Lance Furuyama on -
I'm sure that the Unrepublic of Danistan tech militia has already secured a place for you on the CIA watch list. :-)
In all seriousness, great article.
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Permalink Reply by Daniel Leuck on
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Lance Furuyama: I'm sure that the Unrepublic of Danistan tech militia has already secured a place for you on the CIA watch list.
True, true. I've recently become concerned it could hurt my gubernatorial bid as well.
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