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Old 11-06-2007, 10:16 AM   #91
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Originally Posted by brewer12345 View Post
I smell gibbering fear and abject stupidity. The fed is slashing rates every chance they get and you want to sell banks? OK, happy to take your money.

the issue is not rates being too high, but that the banks made a lot of loans they had no business making under the impression that people can pay 80% of their incomes toward their mortgage or that prices will always go up and they will find a new sucker to buy a 1000sq foot shack for $600,000 in SoCal.

a lot of these people could barely afford the teaser rate payments
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