How the Hell Did We Get Here?

Attendees of last week's Fixed-Income Technology & eTrading Conference in Manhattan, sponsored by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (Sifma), sat through a series of presentations in which each speaker offered his or her take on how the sub-prime mortgage meltdown occurred. A few reasons included faulty assumptions fed into firms' pricing models, risk management theory not keeping up with market changes and collusion between the banks and rating agencies.

However, the

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