As well as easy credit conditions, there is evidence that competitive pressures contributed to an increase in the
amount of subprime lending during the years preceding the crisis.
Critics of subprime lending point out that due to its nature, this type of loan is taken out by people who usually are not able to fulfill their payments and obligations.
The all - but -
absence of subprime lending, however, has had less of an effect on homeownership as it applies to renter households, which are also influencing the decline.
After the
collapse of subprime lending in 2008, and the tightening of credit that followed, FHA - backed mortgages became the only game in town for many first - time home buyers.
I pushed back, exclaiming that I have never seen such horrible loan products as the predatory student loans that were issued like candy during the
heyday of subprime lending.
The implosion
of the subprime lending market in residential real estate first began to emerge in February, throwing the debt markets into a tizzy globally.
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combination of the subprime lending boom and securitization ultimately affected economic activity throughout the U.S. and the rest of the world, leading to the greatest economic downturn since the Great Depression — Go to Lesson 3 now»
Proponents of subprime lending realized the demand for homeownership and refinancing despite imperfect credit and jumped on this untapped customer base, offering similar, if not more aggressive mortgage loan programs at a premium.
I've had a very good call on the FOMC for the past four years, with very few mistakes, and Cramer, in his view that the FOMC will loosen because of the present weakness in the stock market,
because of subprime lending, seems misguided to me.
Prior to the economic downturn, the major force responsible for sowing the seeds of market decay was a flourishing
activity of subprime lending.
Housing experts and some congressional leaders now view those decisions as mistakes that contributed to an
escalation of subprime lending that is roiling the U.S. economy.
In these ways, the collapse
of subprime lending fueled a downward spiral in house prices that unwound much of the increases seen in the subprime boom.
Yet, with homeownership already falling to 68.2 percent in the third quarter of 2007 from the historic high of 69.2 percent in the second quarter of 2004 and the tightening of mortgage loan credit in response to
excesses of subprime lending, it's unlikely that the homeownership rate will increase in the near future.
«With this lawsuit, real
victims of the subprime lending scandal are stepping forward to hold investment banks like Morgan Stanley accountable for the devastation the banks wrought in their lives and in our economy,» said ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero.
This crisis
of subprime lending has had far - reaching effects.