Either way, the increase in
subprime mortgages meant people could borrow a LOT more money to chase homes, if they wanted to anyway.
Not exact matches
Such an outcome could prove to be a classic unintended consequence: Morneau's reforms —
meant to reduce or contain the accumulated risk created by precipitously over-leveraged homebuyers — may unwittingly increase the overall systemic risk in the economy by driving red - lined borrowers to the sort of uninsured
subprime mortgages that have proliferated in the shadow banking sector.
Benjamin Tal's (CIBC's Deputy Chief Economist) following statement, in the Financial Post, helps to clarify what a
subprime mortgage can mean in Canada: «But remember subprime can be someone like a plumber,» he said, referring to self - employed workers, a segment of the market that Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. has mostly abandoned when it comes to backing loans
mortgage can
mean in Canada: «But remember
subprime can be someone like a plumber,» he said, referring to self - employed workers, a segment of the market that Canada
Mortgage and Housing Corp. has mostly abandoned when it comes to backing loans
Mortgage and Housing Corp. has mostly abandoned when it comes to backing loans.»
Even though the Bush administration authorised the TARP program in order to address the
subprime mortgage crisis, Republicans resisted the Obama administration's efforts to resolve the financial crisis as it
meant more spending, more debt and, most egregiously to the neo-liberal generation of Republicans, more government!
What's important to realize is this: Just because a lender offers you a
mortgage with an Alt - A or
subprime rate doesn't
mean you wouldn't qualify for a prime - rate
mortgage with a different lender.
By 2009, 50 % of those
subprime mortgages were «underwater»,
meaning that borrowers owed more money on the
mortgage than the home was worth.
More than half of the recent - vintage
subprimes being «cash - out refis»
meaning the
mortgage was sucking more equity out of the house.
While in Canada a
subprime mortgage may be underwritten to someone who is self employed, the American
subprime product only required a heartbeat —
meaning someone could be unemployed.
But if you sold
subprime, er, I
mean, affordable
mortgages, you had a helluva lot less competition so for years you could sell more
mortgages and, in addition, charge higher fees.
The reason the number of affordable /
subprime mortgages skyrocketed during the boom was because lower lending standards
mean more people can get
mortgages and that
means mortgage companies can sell more
mortgages.