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Nov 6, 2008 18 min

How Mortgage-backed Securities Work

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The 2008 US financial crisis has been blamed on the excessive use of mortgage-backed securities. But what exactly is a mortgage-backed security? Learn more about these securities and how they contributed to the crisis in this HowStuffWorks podcast. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

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