It’s Worth the Trouble to Value Toxic Assets

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Author(s):
  • Kenneth Scott
Publish Date:
August 1, 2009
Publication Title:
Wall Street Journal, August 1, 2009, pg. A10
Format:
Op-Ed or Opinion Piece
Citation(s):
  • Ken Scott and John Taylor, It's Worth the Trouble to Value Toxic Assets, Wall Street Journal, August 1, 2009, pg. A10.
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Abstract

The letters (July 27) on our July 20 op-ed on the complexity and pricing difficulty of toxic assets raise practical issues. Much of the information about the underlying individual mortgage loans is possessed by the trustee of each original mortgage pool, and some of it is collected by a number of private firms for sale to investors. The first step is to assemble as much as possible in a central database with much broader coverage.