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06 October 2011
Subprime Mortgage Revisited
Recently, Bloomberg News reported (8/31/11) that Standard & Poor's, the New York based rating agency, was "poised" to provide a AAA grade (it's highest) to a mortgage trust comprising bonds totaling $497 million dollars lent to homeowners with "below average credit scores and almost no equity in their properties." The mortgage trust was put together by a lender who specializes in lending to borrowers with risky credit, and who also pays S&P to evaluate the deal for creditworthiness. This is the same S&P rating agency that recently downgraded the United States to AA+ (its second highest rating) because US politicians are becoming "less stable, less effective, and less predictable." As the Bloomberg article pointed out, debt issued by the United States is now comparable in risk of default to that of Belgium.... Continue reading Subprime Mortgage Revisited

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