And some of that was good, but unfortunately what you started seeing were what were called these sub-prime loans.
The McCain ad also accuses congressional "liberals" of showing bad judgment when they pushed for "risky" sub-prime loans and fought against more regulation.
Most people know that the meteoric rise of home prices between 2001 and 2006 had to do with sub-prime loans and mortgage-backed securities.
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According to the Mortgage Bankers Association, the delinquency rate was 22% in the fourth quarter of 2008, compared with only 5% for prime loans.
Mortgage-backed securities were used in some cases to mask the risk of default inherent within sub-prime loans, and contributed to the real estate crash and recession.
The reason that many sub-prime borrowers do not demand prime loans or shop around for the best sub-prime price is a lack of basic financial knowledge.
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In the financial world, after all we've been through, sub-prime loans are actually making a comeback, as record low interest rates cause investors to chase returns elsewhere.
Another source of hope for victims of predatory lending could come if the securitisation market, which buys lots of sub-prime loans, became more vigilant about whom it buys loans from.
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If sub-prime borrowers could be helped to make better decisions, says James Carr, head of research at the Fannie Mae Foundation, sub-prime lenders would have to bring rates down, and many would get prime loans.
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One of the two primary causes of the financial crisis was overregulation, primarily forcing banks to trash traditional lending standards, and make ultimately trillions in subprime and other non-prime loans, for the social goal of promoting home ownership among the disadvantaged.
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According to Fannie Mae, the government-sponsored mortgage-lending agency, up to half the people who take out sub-prime loans could qualify for a prime loan, which charges as much as four percentage points less interest, a huge saving over the 30-year life of a mortgage.
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What was worse was that all the big investors and bankers on Wall Street were investing in these sub-prime loans, so they would pour huge amounts of money into the mortgage industry -- nobody was really seeing whether these mortgages were ones that people were going to have the salary to sustain.
The SEC says Mozilo, former chief operating officer David Sambol and ex-chief financial officer Eric Sieracki deliberately misled investors about the nature of Countrywide's business, including the degree to which it had deviated from underwriting mostly prime loans toward riskier subprime and option adjustable-rate mortgages, both of which began to crumble when the housing bubble burst in 2007.
This time around, it's going to focus on branches, though it will continue to originate prime mortgage loans and commercial real estate loans.
Now Lloyds may be right that these really are the most succulent and prime of loans, where the probability of them going bad really is more or less zero.
Others cannot qualify for the fixed-rate "prime" loans they need, or they are prohibited from refinancing by prepayment penalties meant to assure the lender that the borrower's high payments would continue for a minimum number of years.
Obama also secured, through his position on the Woods Fund and Chicago Annenberg Challenge boards (he served on the former with Bill Ayers), funding for ACORN's intimidation campaigns against banks that failed to make sub-prime style loans to otherwise ineligible would-be homeowners.
Yes that means taking credit risk, but it also means making loans tied to the prime rate and therefore, loans which adjust with the coming inflation.
One potential worry is sub-prime lending: loans to people with a bad credit history.
There have even been some securitizations of prime-mortgage loans.
For one, the U.S. housing bubble imploded after bulge bracket banks could no longer bare the losses associated with mortgage backed securities, and the ultra leverage used to buy sub prime real estate loans.
Small-business loans track the prime rate--the rate at which banks make loans to their most credit-worthy commercial customers.
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Wells Fargo Home Mortgage has traditionally maintained a higher mix of prime conventional and government loans than the overall industry, especially during the credit bubble which helps explain why Wells Fargo rebounded in a relatively better position vs. competitors than before the crisis.
But even after learning about the defectiveness of the loans, Bear Stearns "went on to issue over 30 sub-prime and Alt-A securitisations that included AHM loans", says the attorney general.
Not surprisingly, given their weaker credit histories and financial conditions, subprime borrowers default on their loans more frequently than prime borrowers.
Regional banks have also steered clear of the other main area where credit is deteriorating, sub-prime lending (high-interest loans to borrowers with patchy credit).
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Alt A loans are somewhat in-between prime and subprime mortgages on the risk scale.
John Bella, managing director in ABS at Fitch Ratings, said net losses on auto asset-backed securities have fallen steadily since the crisis four years ago, and the deals are now backed by stronger collateral, or loans made to so-called prime borrowers.
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