How did people profit from the 2008 crisis?

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Like how did they make money by predicting it ? what was the strategy?

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They basically got short credit swaps on mortgage backed securities. They basically give an inverse return to the MBS, which is a bond made up of a bunch of mortgage debt. When these bonds defaulted, the swaps returned max profit.

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