
Lessons from Silicon Valley Bank
The Memo by Howard Marks
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The GFC and the Financial Crisis of 2023
Investors and financial institutions experienced temporary insanity with respect to residential mortgages. They accepted unquestioningly that mortgages' low default history could be extrapolated. Subprime mortgages were totally lacking in substance, yet many of the world's leading banks made them loans.
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