Mortgage Bubble

1. what is a NINJA Loan?

2. What is the difference between a sub-prime and prime mortgage?

3. What is the difference between a fixed and adjustable mortgage?

4. What is securitization?

5. What is a Collateralized Debt Obligation? (CDO)

6. What are Tranches?

7, What is an Option ARM Loan?

8. Deutsche Bank, research the details of this banking institution.

9. What is a FICO score?  What is the history of it, who created it, what is it used for?

10. Tradeline Solutions, what did this company do?

11. What is a Bond?

12. What is a Treasury Bill?

13. What is the London Interbank Offered Rate? (LIBOR)

14. What are the Basel Accords?  Why were they created?

15.What is a Capital Reserve Requirement?

16. AIG, what did they do, why did they collapse?

17. What is a Credit Default Swap?  (CDS)

18. What is a Mortgage backed security?  (MBS)

19. What is a naked credit default swap?

20. What does monoline insurance company do?

Alan Greenspan, ______________________ in the universe

Why was the Glass Steagall act created?

Why was the Glass Steagall Act repealed?

What is the Gramm Leach-Gliley Act?

What is the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000?

What is a derivative? 

Who is Ayn Rand?

What is Collectivism? 

What are the main jobs of the Federal Reserve?

Who is Alan Greenspan?

What is the Glass Steagall act?

When and what happened during the Savings and Loan crisis (S & L crisis)?

What is a commercial bank? Examples

What is an investment bank? Examples

What is the difference between an investment bank and a commercial bank?

What is a put or put option?

What is a Greenspan put?

What was the dotcom or dot com bubble?

What is a venture capitalist?

What is the difference between a speculator and an investor?

What was the Orange County bankruptcy scandal of 1994?

What was the Bankers Trust Scandal of 1995?

What was the Long Term Capital Management Scandal?