September 28, 2008

The subprime mortgage mess - explained

The Wizard admits that he is belatedly trying to wrap his mind around the staggering news that President Bush is trying to browbeat Congress into approving a whopping $700 billion to bail out Wall Street.

With that in mind, I present to the public a Microsoft power point presentation that should help explain to the viewer in easy terms how Wall Street and the financial community at large got itself into the sub prime mortgage mess in the first place. Note that the power point presentation is about 2.5mb in size, ergo it will take a minute or so to download, depending upon your Internet connection. Follow the usual power point instructions to go through the presentation; press the ESC button to get out and the up and down arrows to go forward and backwards in the presentation.

I get a laugh every time I go through it and laughs are few and far between these days.

Enjoy!

Wizard

Posted by The Mighty Wizard at September 28, 2008 09:00 PM