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| last edited by BillSeitz on Nov 9, 2008 8:48 am |
category of Mortgage Debt - where lender is higher-risk than "normal"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_lending
often structured as an [ARM] ([Adjustable Rate Mortgage]), with an initially low interest rate (partially due to low Fed rates at the time, partially due to marketing [Bait And Switch])
another Credit Rating failure in 2006-8
part of Credit Crisis2008
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