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Adjustable Rate Mortgages Are Making A Slow Comeback

CNN Money | Les Christie, Staff Writer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Mortgages, Housing Boom, Teaser Rates, Adjustable Rate Mortgages, Mortgage Banker's Association, Buying a Home, Arms, Business News

Adjustable rate mortgages are back! After accounting for nearly 70% of all mortgages issued during the boom, ARMs vanished during the bust, totalin...

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Goldman Sachs in Troubled Waters

Georges Ugeux | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economy, U.S. Treasury, The Big Short, Investors, Compliance, Investment Banks, Goldman Sachs, Otc Derivatives, Germany, Teaser Rates, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Subprime, Trading, Cdo, Lloyd Blankfein, Too Big to Fail, Cds, Aig, Michael Lewis, John Mack, Democrats, Stan O'Neal, Dick Fuld, Fraud, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan, Mortgage, John Paulson, Wall Street, Abacus, Banks, Sec, Europe, Bonuses, Republicans, Ikb, Business News
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Wall Street has long forgotten how to spell "ethical" or "good," and replaced it with "compliant" and "legal." The time has come to explain to investment banks what their responsibility and accountability are.

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Option ARM Mortgages "About To Explode"

Reuters | Lisa Lambert | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Adjustable Rate Mortgages, Option Arms, Tom Miller, Terry Goddard, Housing Crisis, Teaser Rates, Business News

"Payment option ARMs are about to explode," Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller said after a Thursday meeting with members of President Barack Obama's ad...

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Adjustable Rate Mortgages Could Dampen Economic Recovery

nytimes.com | JOHN LELAND | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Adjustable-Rate Mortgages, Option Arms, Mortgages, Mortgage Resets, Housing Crisis, Teaser Rates, Business News

When Harvey Clavon took out an exotic mortgage to refinance his home in Santa Clarita, Calif., three years ago, he thought he knew what he was doing. ...

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Adjust Rate Mortgage Impact Could Be Worse Than Subprime Crisis

miamiherald.com | Kevin G. Hall | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Adjustable Rate Mortgages, Teaser Rates, Mortgage Rates, Mortagage Crisis, Mortgage Industry, Real Estate, Submprime Crisis, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Call it son of subprime. Experts warn that a new wave of mortgage foreclosures may be coming soon and could rival the default rates for ...

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