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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
subprime crisis. “It’s hard to overstate the dramatic buildup in subprime lending by mid-decade,” he said. “Subprime lending represented a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
Washington, D.C., Retsinas believes all parties in the housing mess were coconspirators — from lenders that hawked subprime finance deals with microprint caveats, to brokers that turned a blind eye to borrowers’ long-term solvency, to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
right across the Western financial system. Not many people understood that defaults on subprime mortgages would destroy the value of exotic new asset-backed instruments like collateralized debt obligations. Not many people saw that, as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
is in 2006 and 2007, when banks were offering subprime mortgages to just about anyone and junk-rated firms were borrowing in droves. “When it looks like everyone has loosened their lending standards, that... View Details