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The private loans are often subprime, with high rates and almost no consumer protections.
As much as one-fourth of the $2.8 billion in loans issued by Harley-Davidson Financial Services last year were subprime, with interest rates as high as 18percentt.
As Konczal says, all of this stuff relies on a form of three-card monte: you talk about "subprime and other high-risk" loans, lumping subprime with other loans that are not, it turns out, anywhere near as risky as actual subprime; then use this essentially fake aggregate to make it seem as if Fannie/Freddie were actually at the core of the problem.
Switzerland's banking sector which had in the past contributed an average of around 10.0% to GDP in recent years has seen its fortunes dwindle as the likes of UBS and Credit Suisse have paid for their investments in U.S. subprime with massive losses and job cuts.
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These borrowers typically end up with subprime loans, with a higher interest rate and additional requirements, such as mortgage insurance.
Now, it took subprime down with it, but it took a lot of stuff down with it.
Mr. Nothaft said that a typical subprime borrower, with a credit score of 550, might qualify for a 2/28 loan with a teaser rate of 5.9percentt.
A lot of attention is on the subprime loans with low teaser rates that are about to reset upward, zapping borrowers with much larger interest costs.
Sub-Saharan Sub-Saharan AfricaBorrowers, with Hamid Rashid, Project Syndicate, June 25, 2013.
Loans were doled out to "subprime" borrowers with poor credit histories who struggled to repay them.
For example, "we filed the first resolutions about subprime lending with six financial institutions in 1993".
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