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No, we didn't have a global financial crash because a few poor people couldn't pay their mortgage. We had that crash because some people gambled huge amounts of other people's money on whether these mortgages would be paid.

I used to write some lengthy posts about this and then a few months ago The Big Short was on TV, I watched it for the first time, and realised it was saying exactly what I'd been trying to explain for years. So just watch that.

Plus it has Margot Robbie explaining the technical terms in a bubble bath, so if you don't get it the first time, you can rewind and watch again.



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