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The $700 Billion Man With an Engineer's Mind

The $700 Billion Man With an Engineer's Mind    more»»
Many of the complicated securities at the center of the subprime mortgage crisis were designed by mathematicians and physicists, and now the U.S. government has tapped an aerospace engineer who used to design NASA satellites to start unraveling them.

Thu Oct 09, 2008


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