Just wait till they look at the REITs.
Commercial real estate is next! http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-03/wp_quant?currentPage=all
Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street
By Felix Salmon
In the mid-’80s, Wall Street turned to the quants—brainy financial engineers—to invent new ways to boost profits. Their methods for minting money worked brilliantly... until one of them devastated the global economy.
Okay, time to “trot out” Hitler’s problems...
Problems Hitler had with his mortgage...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNmcf4Y3lGM
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Also, “Ballad of Bernie Madoff”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8pcME4MMj0