Conforming 30-Year Fixed-Rate Mortgages Are Not Out of Whack
Chris Dillow plots the numbers, and tells us that normal mortgages are not (yet) a source of extra-normal risk:
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Posted by: wcw | August 16, 2007 at 10:22 PM
Uh, what about jumbo loans? Way, way out of wack. And on the coasts, where all the housing action and value is, they are all jumbo loans.
Posted by: mike | August 17, 2007 at 05:00 AM