View Single Post
Old 08-16-2007, 02:39 PM   #28
Bobblehead
Franchise Player
 
Bobblehead's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
Exp:
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos View Post
I'm listening to a BBC radio station and every half hour the guy says "bla bla bla down down down based on American mortgage crisis".

How the hell can a bunch of high-risk American mortgages put the whole damn thing on the hook? How much money can be tied up in there, in the grand scheme of things?
The article Cow posted has a pretty good explanation in it.

Primarily, people giving the loans are gun shy.
__________________
"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
Bobblehead is offline   Reply With Quote