during the subprime loan era, it’s well documented that lenders took all kinds of shortcuts — such as failing to verify borrowers’ employment or income — to sell mortgages.
Now Bank of America Corp., the nation’s biggest mortgage lender, is saying the nation’s second-largest title insurer did much the same thing and should be on the hook for more than $500 million in losses.
The Federal Reserve yesterday reiterated its plan to stop buying mortgage-securities, raising concerns about jumps in mortgage interest rates later this spring.
Consumer debt in the U.S. is growing with the increased use of credit cards by more households and with more credit cards per household than in past years. In 1968, the total credit card debt in the U.S. was less than $8 billion, adjusted for inflation. by 2009, Americans had a total credit card debt of $972.73 billion. U.S. households who have credit cards have a rising debt level that is projected to continue rising over the next few years. In 1995, American households that had credit cards had an average credit card debt of $5,800. That rate has risen steadily, and in 2008, American credit cardholding households had $10,679 in credit card debt.
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