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The Mortgage Market: What Happened?
URL: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9855669

Description:
This April 2007 article provides an overview of how, as "nationwide real-estate boom of recent years goes bust, economists and regulators are questioning the role that mortgage lenders played in helping to create an overheated housing environment." Includes discussions of risky loans and types of adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs), growth in subprime lending (loans to borrowers with poor credit), and unethical practices. From National Public Radio (NPR).

LII Topics: Housing, Investing, Mortgages, Mortgages

Author:
Trehan, Veena

Publisher:
National Public Radio (NPR)

LII Database Information:
Record 24271 created by Maria Brandt on 08/07/2007
Last modification on 08/13/2007
Published: 08/15/2007  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/24271

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