subprime

• “More securities with the label subprime or Alt-A attached to them are deemed too controversial to own, particularly with the constant threat of express-train credit downgrades taking their ratings many notches lower.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Making A Mint

• “WOOSTER -- A Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Wall Street Journal said the term subprime mortgage was a relatively new one for him when it became the turning point in a crisis.”

  www.the-daily-record.com's Homepage Articles

• “COOPER: Everyone uses this term subprime, but we're talking about junk mortgages.”

  CNN Transcript Sep 18, 2008

• “And you want to make sure you're not part of what we call the subprime crises.”

  CNN Transcript Aug 13, 2007

• “The fees, interest rates, and prepayment penalties embedded in subprime loans made them much more seductive to investors.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael Hudson: 16 Cents on the Dollar: Doing the Math on Angelo Mozilo's Big Settlement

• “The mess in subprime Mortgages is an easy problem to fix.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Rich Bankers: We Want Trillions of Dollars

• “By 2006, minorities were borrowing more per capita than whites, and twice as much per capita in subprime loans.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Mortgage Plan Analysis

• “Lehman, meanwhile, went bankrupt after mucking about in subprime mortgages, sending a shock through the financial system, and ensuring that the government would not allow another big investment bank to fail.”

  Wonk Room » Dick Armey’s Clients Required The Bailouts That Armey’s FreedomWorks Is Now Protesting

• “The boom had produced so much debt that even a small economic stumble could cause major problems, and rising delinquencies in subprime mortgages proved the stumbling block.”

  The Quiet Coup

• “A U.S. judge approved Citigroup's revised pact with federal securities regulators to resolve allegations the bank misled investors about $39 billion in subprime mortgage assets it held.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Business Watch

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