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How Mortgage-backed Securities Work

Stuff You Should Know • November 06, 2008

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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.

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