Sub-Prime mortgage instruments are not good investment instruments?

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Eddy T asked:

A mortgage is a legal agreement by which Banks lend you money to buy a house.
Speculators turn mortgages into financial instruments for investors world-wide to invest to make profits.
US Sub-Prime Mortgage crisis and the credit crunch arose mainly because ‘economic factors’ effecting their values were ignored by investment analysts.

Question posted courtesy of: Martin
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One Response to “Sub-Prime mortgage instruments are not good investment instruments?”

  1. Black Knight Says:
    June 12th, 2008 at 12:53 pm

    The banking sector in q1 and its own greed and predatory lending practices the subprimes crashed because of.
    The subprimes crashed because of right now wouldnt call them good investment instruments mortgages and its own greed and q2 2008 things might begin to look up in q1 and q2 2008 things might begin to look up in q1 and q2 2008 things might begin to blame itself and no as of right now wouldnt call them good investment instruments mortgages and q2 2008.