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Copyright © 2015 by Jessica Abel
This work received the support of the Cité internationale de la bande dessinée
et de l’image, in the form of an author residency at the Masion des auteurs
(Angoulême, France).
ISBN 978-0-385-34843-0
eBook ISBN 978-0-385-34844-7
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Every producer
I talked to for this
book is in this game
for one reason: they
are passionate about
their stories.
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Alex Blumberg
I remember, even in 2005, Someone explained to him that banks were doing
wondering about it. I became this thing that banks had not done in the history of
totally obsessed with this housing banking, which is that they would give out loans to
finance website called Calculated people who were not qualified to get loans, and the banks
Risk. It was a place where skeptics wouldn’t even check what the people reported they earned.
about the housing bubble gathered.
“It’s almost like you pass a I mean, I know guys that are
guy in the street and say…” Would you have loaned criminals who wouldn’t lend
you the money?” me that money and they break
Lend me Well, what your kneecaps, so…ha ha ha!
$540,000? do you do?
Hey, I got
a job.
Okay.
I wouldn’t have loaned me the
money, and nobody that I know
would have loaned me the money.
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But, it was
clear there was
a problem in
subprime at the
very least, and
The people I talk to say we should try
there’s not a problem as long Ha ha
to do a story
as the models are right. ha.
about that.
and went
to a Wall
Street
trader.
And it turns out that we came out with “The Giant That was the key thing. Everybody was aware
Pool of Money” just as the crisis was reaching that something was going crazy in the housing
the national consciousness. So our timing, totally market, but they didn’t know exactly what, and
accidentally, turned out to be a little bit perfect. we came along, and gave everybody a narrative.
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