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Originally Posted by firstdown
It not at hard to figure out. Too many people had loans which they should not have ever had and they could not afford them. When the housing market was doing so great people with mortgage issues or payments too high could just sell their home at a profit and walk away. Now when the sh&* hits the fan they cannot sell their home in a soft market and the trouble begins. Back before the mid 90's about the only way people lost their homes was do to a loss of a job. Now days people are just loosing their homes and still have the same income as they did when they purchased them. Now its going to get much tougher to buy a home and hopefully we do not repeat this again.
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Sorry First, you are behind on this. What you are describing is the collapse of the US housing market, which is only the first part of the story. The bailout does not purport to address this, which is a major reason why the public is not supporting it. How we went from a correction in an overvalued US housing market to the potential collapse of the global economy is a bit more complicated than you are allowing.
09-30-2008, 01:51 AM
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