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Oh dear - Greenspan

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    Oh dear - Greenspan

    http://news.uk.msn.com/Article.aspx?...mentid=6146739

    Why is the British Prime Minister taking advice on the economy from an 81 year old American who helped create the US housing bubble?
    It is bad enough following a foreign policy dictated by the USA.

    Taken from wiki
    Furthermore, in a speech on February 23, 2004, Greenspan suggested that lenders should offer to home purchasers a greater variety of "mortgage product alternatives" other than traditional fixed-rate mortgages.[21]

    Greenspan also praised the rise of the subprime mortgage industry and the tools with which it uses to assess credit-worthiness in an April 2005 speech:
    "Innovation has brought about a multitude of new products, such as subprime loans and niche credit programs for immigrants. Such developments are representative of the market responses that have driven the financial services industry throughout the history of our country … With these advances in technology, lenders have taken advantage of credit-scoring models and other techniques for efficiently extending credit to a broader spectrum of consumers. … Where once more-marginal applicants would simply have been denied credit, lenders are now able to quite efficiently judge the risk posed by individual applicants and to price that risk appropriately. These improvements have led to rapid growth in subprime mortgage lending; indeed, today subprime mortgages account for roughly 10 percent of the number of all mortgages outstanding, up from just 1 or 2 percent in the early 1990s."
    If I was Greenspan I'd be happily retired and refusing any interviews right now.

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