Sentence examples for of a subprime from inspiring English sources

Fears of a subprime meltdown were overblown, he said in a July interview with Bloomberg News.

When people went into default in 2008, it was generally because of the exploding cost of a subprime loan.

2008 The board of the fund announces the creation of a subprime mortgage fund to aid families affected by the mortgage crisis.

The S.E.C. charged Goldman in a civil complaint on April 16 with securities fraud related to the creation and sale of a subprime mortgage security.

"As we've made clear throughout this book," he writes, "the crisis was less a function of subprime mortgages than of a subprime financial system.

The combination of a subprime shock, "untested financial innovation and leverage has led to a confidence crisis," said Pierre Cailleteau, Moody's Investors Service chief economist in London.

Goldman Sachs misstated and left out key facts of a subprime-related security, according to the Securities and Exchange Committee, and the news sent the financial sector crashing in midday trading Friday.

Currently, subprime customers account for 4 percent of G.M. sales, in line with the industry average, but about 40 percent of the population has a subprime rating, Mr. Liddell said.

Fremont General, the parent of a big subprime lender and a bank in California, filed for bankruptcy protection on Wednesday.

Few people worry that Uncle Sam will go the way of a defaulting subprime borrower because the government, unlike other debtors, can always print the money it needs.

The days of "Alt A" loans other subprime tools are long gone.