Collateralized Debt Quotes & Sayings

When I'm going through something that has a big impact on my life, it's much easier to sing. — Avril Lavigne

It's hard to determine where lies culpability. — Roger Mahony

The same system that once gave us subprime mortgage collateralized debt obligations no investor could possibly truly understand now gave us stock market trades that occurred at fractions of a penny at unsafe speeds using order types that no investor could possibly truly understand. — Michael Lewis

Heaven suits the back to the burden. — Charles Dickens

The art of chess is akin to the art of war itself; full of strategy and cunning, yet clever placements. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

What occurred did so because I was open to it, and not because fate and I met at a certain angle. I had plenty of time to think about this later. I thought about it so much that the events of that evening sometimes ran along under my mood like a secret river, in the way that all buried truths rushed along quietly in some hidden place. — Rachel Kushner

And if I had to spend 20 years in the band just to play that show, and have done that, I think it would have been worthwhile. — Larry Mullen Jr.

The collateralized debt obligation, the CDO, is a structure which allows you to more or less continuously choose how much risk you want to take in a whole batch of securities. And the reason why they got us into so much trouble is that it's hard to figure out how much risk you really are taking. — Robert F. Engle

Make your decisions with your heart, and you'll end up with heart disease. — Harvey MacKay

Mr Melly had to be obscene to be believed — Quentin Crisp

Then resold their loans in bulk to Wall Street banks. The banks, in turn, bundled the loans into high-yielding residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) and sold them on to investors around the world, all eager for a few hundredths of a percentage point more return on their capital. Repackaged as collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), these subprime securities could be transformed from risky loans to flaky borrowers into triple-A rated investment-grade securities. — Niall Ferguson

But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad. — Coolio

Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity. — Oscar Wilde

agencies began to downgrade scores of RMBS CDOs (short for 'residential mortgage-backed security collateralized debt obligations', the very term testifying to the over-complex nature of these products). — Niall Ferguson

Nature is fun to study, but style is everything. — Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre