How to Save Your Soul & Cancel Bloomberg BusinessWeek

If you are literate and you can do basic arithmetic, then you can probably figure out that the origin of the sub-prime mortgage crisis originated because of high-risk predatory derivative security practices. Don’t let the term intimidate you. It basically just means when someone packages a security, gets someone else to guarantee it, and then profits off of selling a worthless “security” by disguising it as something it’s not.