The mortgage market turbulence is as much about the breakdown of the structure of U.S. financial markets as it is about bad debt How could a modest increase in seriously delinquent subprime mortgages, ...

I was simply amazed. I was not aware of the scale of distribution of subprime mortgages to the world. I was amazed at the interest on the part of investors to invest in a product that was highly ...

Investors were on the lookout for new, post-technology bubble investment opportunities, which they found in the form of loans to high-risk homebuyers, known as subprime mortgages. During this ...

He also holds a bachelor’s degree in Finance. If you're trying to borrow money for a home with poor credit, a subprime mortgage may be your only option. But, what is a subprime mortgage?

A subprime mortgage might be an option for a low-credit score borrower who can’t qualify for a conventional mortgage. There are laws in place to protect subprime borrowers from many of the risks ...

The epicenter of the crisis had changed—from Asia to the United States and Europe. And the buzzwords had, too. Securitization, subprime mortgages, and collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) seem ...

Underlying the mortgage mess has been the fact that "no one knows what subprime securities are really worth," said Barry Ritholtz, director of equity research for New York-based FusionIQ ...

Alfaro, Laura, and Renee Kim. "U.S. Subprime Mortgage Crisis: Policy Reactions (A)." Harvard Business School Case 708-036, March 2008. (Revised July 2009.) ...

Predictably, high interest rates are hitting hardest those auto-loan borrowers who can afford it the least — those with subprime or even near-prime credit scores. “Affordability has been a ...