A second financial crisis is very possible; this article portrays this event happening.
There has been over $1 trillion wrapped up in subprime loans over the
last ten years, much of which has been written off as a loss. What most
Americans do not know is that there is over $1.5 trillion tied up in
"exotic" mortgage loans including Alt-A and Option ARMs. Many of these
exotic mortgages are scheduled to reset in the next six to eighteen
months and could cause a crisis even larger than that of the subprime
crisis.
Many of the borrowers of "exotic" mortgages had the perception that the
economy and their financial standing would get better before their
rates reset. Sadly, the opposite is true on both of those fronts. The
"exotic" mortgages offered very low rates for the first few years of
the mortgage; many of them offering rates below 5%. The problem that
will cause our next crisis is that many of these rates are going to
jump over 8 or 9%. Many of the same people that desired a stronger
financial life are going to see their savings crumble as their mortgage
payments could increase as much as 50% due to the reset of their loan.
It is highly likely that we are getting close to the end of the
subprime crisis which will greatly help the housing market. Hopefully,
those who took out "exotic" mortgages will be able to afford the
increased payments because if they cannot, we could see a problem even
worse than the subprime crisis. Many of these borrowers are prime
borrowers as well. It is quite unnerving to know that prime borrowers
could very well start defaulting on their homes. Foreclosures will
follow and it will be deju vu all over again, but even worse because
the economy has been in a downward spiral for the last fifteen months.
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