Articles on Subprime Mortgage Crisis
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Subprime Mortgage Crisis: An Introduction
As Safe As Houses! “As safe as houses”, this phrase is often used in our society. A house is supposed...
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Dot Com Bust: Starting Point of Subprime Mortgage Crisis
The subprime mortgage crisis is a unique case in the fact that this bubble started from an earlier present bubble...
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The Case Of Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and Ginnie Mae
The role that the government played in causing the subprime mortgage crisis is highly debatable. However, the same cannot be...
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Types of Mortgages
The United States mortgage market was considered one of the most advanced markets in the world. It seemed like the...
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Types of Mortgages from Borrowers Point of View
In the previous article, we studied about the different types of loans from the lenders point of view. Therefore we...
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Mortgage Products – Negative Amortization & Home Equity Line of Credit
In the previous two articles, we have studied the different types of mortgages from the borrowers as well as from...
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New Age Financial Securities – Mortgage Backed Securities & Credit Default Swaps
The new age mortgage market was extremely unlike the old one. The old one used to work based on a...
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Collateralized Debt Obligations and Tranching
In the previous article, we learned about mortgage backed securities. We learned about how mortgages are pooled and then a...
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Credit Market Freeze – Causes and its Importance
The sub-prime mortgage crisis and the credit freeze are often spoken about in the same breath. In fact, the layman...
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Mortgage Lending: Borrower Approach vs Collateral Approach
The subprime mortgage crisis was basically a clash of ideologies. These ideologies were related to the centuries old belief regarding...
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The Big Bust – Washington Mutual (WaMu)
Washington Mutual (WaMu) was one of the oldest and biggest banks in the United States. Like many of its peers,...
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General Motors and the Subprime Crisis
General Motors (GM) was one of the most unexpected casualties in the subprime mortgage crisis. This was because of the...
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The Return of Subprime Mortgages
The 2008 crisis in America was mainly caused by making subprime housing loans. The crisis first gripped some cities in...
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The Big Fall: Lehman Brothers
History Lehman Brothers started as a grocery store in Alabama in 1844. Over the years Lehman Brothers grew into a...
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The Big Fall: Bear Stearns
The subprime mortgage crisis is known for the spectacular collapse of some of the largest financial institutions in almost no...
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