subprime mortgages
2 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 12, 2022 by Greg Lippmann · across every show →
Everything said about subprime mortgages, oldest first
Sep 12, 2022 bearish
Lippmann: Slow-growth 2000-vintage mortgages had 28% defaults and 50%+ losses
“But if you looked at the bottom quartile for houses, they were going up three to four percent per year, and 28% of the people were defaulting. And we were losing 50, 55 cents on the dollar when they did, because of the similar type of slippage.”