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So just like always, the mortgage brokerconnects the family with a lender and a mortgage making his commission. Thefamily buys a big house. The lender sells the mortgage to the investmentbanker, who turns it into a CDO, and sells slices to the investors3 and others.This actually works out nicely for everyone that makes them all rich. No onewas worried because as soon as they sold the mortgage to the next guy, it washis problem. If the homeowners were to default, they didn’t care; they wereselling off their risk to the next guy and making millions, like playing hotpotato with a time bomb.
Not surprisingly, the homeowners defaulton their mortgage which at this moment is owned by the banker. This means heforecloses, and one of his monthly payments turns into a house. No big deal, heputs it up for sale. But more and more of his monthly payments turn intohouses. Now there are so many houses for sale on the market, creating moresupply than there is demand, and housing prices aren’t rising any more. In fact,they
plummet4.
This creates an interesting problem forhomeowners still paying their mortgages. As all the houses in theirneighborhood go up for sale, the value of their house goes down. And they startto wonder why they’re paying back their $300,000 mortgage when the house is nowworth only $90,000. They decide that it doesn’t make sense to continue paying,even though they can afford to. And they walk away from their house, defaultrates sweep the country and prices plummet.
Now the investment banker is basicallyholding a box full of worthless houses. He calls up his
buddy5 the
investor2 tosell his CDO, but the investor isn’t stupid, and says:”No, thanks.” He knowsthat the stream of money isn’t even a drippleany more.
The banker tries to sell to everyone butnobody wants to buy his bomb. He is freaking out because he borrowed millions,sometimes billions of dollars to buy this bomb and he can’t pay it back.Whatever he tries, he can’t get rid of it.
But he’s not the only one. The investorshave already bought thousands of these bombs. The lender calls up trying tosell his mortgage but the banker won’t buy it. And the
broker1 is out of work.The whole financial system is frozen and things get dark. Everybody startsgoing bankrupt.
But that’s not all. The investor calls upthe homeowner and tells them their investments are worthless. And you can beginto see how the crisis flows in a cycle.
Welcome to the crisis of credit.
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