Comments on: Black Swans and the Mortgage Morass http://blownmortgage.com/2007/08/12/black-swans-and-the-mortgage-morass/ #1 Free Home Loan Modification & Debt Relief Help For US Home Owners - Truths, Facts & News About the Mortgage Industry Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:41:57 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Astrologers and economists - no one knows where bottom is http://blownmortgage.com/2007/08/12/black-swans-and-the-mortgage-morass/comment-page-1/#comment-11349 Astrologers and economists - no one knows where bottom is Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:33:27 +0000 http://blownmortgage.com/2007/08/12/black-swans-and-the-mortgage-morass/#comment-11349 [...] most-recently wrote The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable which argues that traditional risk-avoidance measures are woefully inaccurate in the face of catastr....  He remains amazingly [...] [...] most-recently wrote The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable which argues that traditional risk-avoidance measures are woefully inaccurate in the face of catastr….  He remains amazingly [...]

]]> By: Subprime mortgage problems are no longer "contained" http://blownmortgage.com/2007/08/12/black-swans-and-the-mortgage-morass/comment-page-1/#comment-2189 Subprime mortgage problems are no longer "contained" Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:36:21 +0000 http://blownmortgage.com/2007/08/12/black-swans-and-the-mortgage-morass/#comment-2189 [...] dollar for every time some pollyanna dragged the word containment or a version thereof out in some overly-simplified theory of why I’m over reacting I’d have close to … wait for it… $150 million. [...] [...] dollar for every time some pollyanna dragged the word containment or a version thereof out in some overly-simplified theory of why I’m over reacting I’d have close to … wait for it… $150 million. [...]

]]> By: Morgan Brown http://blownmortgage.com/2007/08/12/black-swans-and-the-mortgage-morass/comment-page-1/#comment-2141 Morgan Brown Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:46:54 +0000 http://blownmortgage.com/2007/08/12/black-swans-and-the-mortgage-morass/#comment-2141 <p>BV - thanks for the comment and think link. So is the book his mea culpa? I can't wait to get through the rest of it!</p> BV – thanks for the comment and think link. So is the book his mea culpa? I can’t wait to get through the rest of it!

]]> By: BetterVillage http://blownmortgage.com/2007/08/12/black-swans-and-the-mortgage-morass/comment-page-1/#comment-2128 BetterVillage Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:47:15 +0000 http://blownmortgage.com/2007/08/12/black-swans-and-the-mortgage-morass/#comment-2128 Yep... Black Swan...Tsunami...call it what you will. We discussed this book on the la landblog at the end of last month: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laland/2007/07/will-prices-rea.html I find it convenient that the guy who is reputed to have pioneered the derivative is the one who writes the book that explains how things like derivatives can go insanely out of control. Yep… Black Swan…Tsunami…call it what you will.

We discussed this book on the la landblog at the end of last month:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laland/2007/07/will-prices-rea.html

I find it convenient that the guy who is reputed to have pioneered the derivative is the one who writes the book that explains how things like derivatives can go insanely out of control.

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