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The Crisis of Credit Visualized

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0zEXdDO5JU

Subprime Housing Crisis, by Peter Marcuse

“What is called the “subprime mortgage crisis” reflects a fundamental crisis in the housingsystem of the United States. Subprime mortgages are mortgages given to borrowers whose incomes or credit ratings or the equity in whose property does not justify a conventionalmortgage at the prevailing interest rate on prevailing terms. Instead, subprime [...]