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Mortgages are like radioactive noodles

May 8th, 2008 | No comments

Steve Schwarzman, on why Blackstone failed to close the PHH Mortgage buyout (via The Wall Street Journal): “Trying to buy a mortgage bank in the midst of the subprime crisis was the equivalent of being a noodle salesman in Nagasaki when the atomic bomb went off. Not a lot of noodles left, or even a [...]