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How subprime lending works

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Posted to Diary on Mon Sep 29, 2008 at 07:29:40 PM EST. RSS.

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Re: How subprime lending works

gerrymander.

Tue Sep 30, 2008 at 11:29:14 AM EST

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Replace "shell company in the Cayman Islands" with "Fannie Mae/Freddie Mae" on slide 25, and that a fairly concise description of the problem.

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Re: How subprime lending works

Shy Elf.

Tue Sep 30, 2008 at 08:20:01 PM EST

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Here's a longwinded version without the securitization issues, which are the more interesting part.  It does at least have a good exploration of how, from the viewpoints of people farther up the food chain, it was the Norwegian village pension funds who were most responsible for creating whole subprime lending crisis.

The presentation is right.  Recall that it's talking about the "subprime" loans.  What Fannie and Freddie hold are the better loans, which still stink just not as much.  They were really following what the securitization industry was doing, rather than the other way around.

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