It's less about the honesty of the banker and borrower and mostly about whether the borrower had skin in the game.
Thus, subsidizing more mortgage debt won't change the game.
Sunday, July 05, 2009
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Literary and Aesthetic Resources
Wm. Faulkner's Nobel Speech, 1950
64th Field Artillery Battalion- Korea
(my father's unit)
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