UNITED STATES: Prime mortgages pose new systemic risks

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  • Bad loan glut
  • Increasing default rates
  • Negative equity wave
  • Risks to lenders
  • Incentives to default
  • Price-default cycle
  • Sub-prime losses
  • Principal danger
  • Prime loan defaults
  • Fed impotence
  • Government intervention?
  • Frank proposal
  • Potential cost
  • Feldstein plan
  • Systemic risks
  • Monetary policy
  • Fannie-Freddie solvency
  • Outlook

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