| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Those mortgages were then bundled into securities, and firms such as Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch created credit derivatives to protect investors in case the securities defaulted.Why were these securities so popular?They provided above-market rates of return, and because these complex instruments were so poorly understood, they seemed more solid???and less risky???than they really were.
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