I am watching the Big Short and the opening scene is that banker talking about individual mortgages being low yield and boring. Then he goes on to say their yield is higher when bundled to an MBS.
How could that be possible?
If I combine two debts with 1% interest, wouldn’t the combined interest be 1% again?
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