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Sunday, November 18, 2007

The Subprime Mortgage Problem Was Created By Bankruptcy Reform!

I saw an interesting post on the Ron Paul Forum, which referred to an article on bloomberg.com.

Summarizing, the article says that the subprime mortgage problem was caused by recent bankruptcy reform. The banks lobbied to change bankruptcy law to favor banks more. It became much harder for the average person to discharge credit card debt in bankruptcy. The consequence of this is that people with crushing credit card debt wound up defaulting on their mortgages instead!

In other words, banks lobbied for a law that favored them. In practice, it wound up hurting banks. They tried to prevent people from defaulting on their loans. Instead, the defaults moved from one type of loan to another type of loan.

1 comment:

Ineffabelle said...

Although in the long run, mortgages are better as a default for the banks, because they can foreclose on them. I know that that causes liquidity problems higher up the chain, but some people will probably create firms that buy defaulted mortgages at a discount and foreclose on them as their business model.

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