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Subprime Debacle

Submitted by Laurent Baptiste, Oct 26, 2007 08:16

Your suggestion that mortgage originators be capitalized to hold a percentage of their loans in portfolio is excellent. World Savings (now part of Wachovia) holds the bulk of its loans in portfolio, and offers some of the most "exotic" mortgage products of all - they developed the "pay-option arm" and have been consistently profitable. I am a mortgage loan officer, and I am appalled at the "one stop shops" of mortgage broker, real estrate broker, and (fraudulent) appraiser that infest minority neighborhoods. These people are practicing fraud, and are part of the reason that 53 percent of mortgages issued to African-Americans are "high cost" by federal standards. It is safe to say that none of the loans they broker are held in portfolio by the lenders.

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