NPR Interviews the Guy Who Helped Blow Up Wall Street
The Guy Who Helped Blow Up Wall Street

      
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                After his software was sold to another company, Michael Osinski quit the business and became an oyster farmer on Long Island.
                
                    
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        After his software was sold to another company, Michael Osinski quit the business and became an oyster farmer on Long Island.
        
            
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   These days, everyone's looking for someone to blame for the financial crisis.  The list is long, and here's another name that could be on it: Michael Osinski.   In the '90s, Osinski wrote a computer program that made it very easy to make a lot of money off of bad mortgages — maybe too easy.  After his software was sold to another company, he quit the business and became an oyster farmer on Long Island.  Now he's written an article — or perhaps a confession — that appeared in this week's New York Magazine.   Host Robert Smith talks with Osinski about being a trader in the '90s, and whether he saw the crisis coming.   
   
   

