Mortgage REITs, like Annaly Capital Management (NLY 1.33%) and American Capital Agency (AGNC 0.99%), have had a rough time during the past six months or so, but what should investors be looking for when hunting for a good mREIT?

In this segment from The Motley Fool's everything-financials show, Where the Money Is, banking analysts David Hanson and Matt Koppenheffer play a round of "Fool in the Blank" and discuss JPMorgan Chase's (JPM 2.51%) Jamie Dimon and PNC (PNC 2.98%) and U.S. Bancorp's (USB 2.56%) ability to hack it with the big boys one day.

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