Sentence examples for lenient lending from inspiring English sources

There the largest part of the problem was a housing bubble, brought on by lenient lending.

In return, buyout firms extracted lenient lending terms at low prices, enabling them to borrow more as they bought ever-larger companies.

In the long view, tighter loan standards seem healthy after a terrible crisis attributed in part to years of recklessly lenient lending.

Mr. Greenspan noted today that even with the strong economy, the federal deposit insurance funds had recently had some big losses caused by lenient lending standards and fraud at banks.

Even Fair Isaac says it's not surprised that its scores have missed the mark in a lenient lending environment.

We had grown too quickly, were operating in a building we couldn't afford, and were too lenient in our lending.

And David Burke lends the more lenient Talbot the sanctified wisdom of age.

Rachel Dollar, a lawyer from Santa Rosa, Calif., who specializes in mortgage fraud, said that many of the fraud incidents had probably occurred in 2006 and early 2007, when lending restrictions were far more lenient than they are now.

To those who object that this is yet another kind of debt, but with higher interest rates, she answers that that's part of the point: aid lending has been far too lenient (50-year terms, low interest rates, more money lent even if a country defaults).

Mortgage brokers netted commissions as they lent almost indiscriminately, offering exotically lenient terms — no money down, no income or job required.

Mr. Paulson invested the taxpayers' money on terms so lenient that banks have felt free to hoard it, or to buy other banks — while refusing to bolster lending to consumers and small businesses.