"Medgya" <medgyadal@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> On Sep 21, 3:24 pm, Medgya <medgya...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> the bookstore has more than doubled over the past year. Lots of
>>   sort of things, attempting to make the stock market seem, well...
>
> Hmmmm... Seems that Google doesn't like it when I include Japanese.
> What this said was "Lots of Kabushiki Nyuumon Nyuumon" sort of things.
> And the inevitable manga, too. Or in any case, a concerted push to get
> as many unprepared people as possible signed up for online trading,
> after which... well... you can guess.
>
>

Lots of  US paper (notes) are sold in bundles so you might get a combination 
of things. (kinda like finding a finger in your chili).
A few of years ago mortgage companies were issuing subprime loans to people 
who could barley qualify.
In order to squeeze people into these loans they wrote them into adjustable 
rate mortgage loans. (aka ARM)
The story being... go ahead and take the loan now and before the adjustment 
period kicks in (in two years) you can refinance and beat it. " teaser rate"
So the mortgage broker told buyers (to get his commission) it was a good 
idea...(bad idea greedy bastards).
What they didn't say was "when the adjustable mortgage changes your house
payment will go up forty percent".
Now mortgage companies have been foreclosing on these loans, the property is 
sitting empty and the paper is garbage.
Mrs. Watanabe could have bailed out when the first drop occurred and she 
could have cut her losses.

see 
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/YourMoney.aspx?cp-documentid=5455179
Investors' willingness to gamble fueled the go-go atmosphere. Wall Street 
firms kept pushing mortgage lenders to come up with higher-yielding loans to 
sell to their customers.