While sub-prime has morphed into a naughty word, a near clone has stealthily infiltrated the mortgage markets, choking the breath out of many unfortunates ensnared by its enervating tentacles.

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Legend has it that the paper's sub-editors were not allowed to change a single word of his columns.

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