With the subprime cows relegated to dairy duty, here’s a collection of some key prime mortgage stories of the week.
- Who will get caught holding the subprime hot potato? [Salon]
- Mortgage problems could slap down housing prices sharply [USA Today]
- Subprime Mortgage Woes Are Likely to Spread [WSJ]
- Inside The Mortgage Crisis [BW]
- Kass: Fed Is No Savior in Subprime Slide
- Risky Business Still Attracts Eager Lenders [NYT]
- Fannie, Freddie Wary of Controls [WaPo]
- Subprime Suspects [Slate]
- The Fingers of Housing Instability [John Maudlin]
- Pimco Says Subprime Woes May Spread to Alt-A, Jumbo [Bloomberg]
- Will I get crushed by the Subprime fallout? [Boston Globe]
- Greg Hitt and Sarah Lueck and James R. Hagerty [REJ]
Tags: Jumbo Mortgage, Sub-Prime
Calculated Risk, a joint effort by a retired finance executive and a former credit officer has done an excellent job in analyzing the current mess and its likely effect on both the larger housing market and the national economy.
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