Why Investors Care About mREITs

Mortgage REITs like Two Harbors and Annaly Capital Management have been making headlines for the past six months - why are investors so fixated on this sector? In this segment from The Motley Fool's everything-financials show, Where the Money Is, banking analysts David Hanson and Matt Koppenheffer take a question from their mailbag about the embattled sector.

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