Five Questions About the Mortgage Crisis

The housing crisis and mortgage mess may be moving off the front pages, but I still have some big questions.

Many of those questions revolve around how so many smart people -- not the homebuyers, but Wall Streeters -- could have been so dumb. Or how they could've been so blinded by greed to the eventual results of what they were doing. I wonder how they can complain now that they're losing money.

Here are just a few questions I'd love to get answered:

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