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Foreclosure-Gate: Why Was There Demand for Bad Mortgage Loans?
• NakedCapitalism.com/What happened is that the benefits for originating bad loans exceeded the cost of these negative consequences – someone was paying enough more for bad loans to overwhelm the normal economic incentives to resist such bad underwriting.