 subprime mortgages were sold by entities who knew that's right that they weren't going to be able to that's right and then they offloaded them as fast as they could right right and so the people who were stuck in those mortgages you know they literally had their furniture out on the curb they were thrown out of their homes their children could no longer go to the schools where they were and these were real tragedies and so writing about that was was really important to me and