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Originally Posted by SuzeQuze
Most people aren't too bright and they'll take a mortgage if someone gives it to them without realizing they can't pay it. Not that they aren't still responsible, they are. The banks are moreso though IMO since they are the experts and know with certainty what can be paid and what cannot. Also, why would they want to give a mortgage someone cannot pay? That's financial suicide.
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Au contraire. On Wall Street, that's considered "revenue." Their balance sheets looked so good because they accounted for the full value of the (suicide) loans they made based on the assumption that they were going to be paid back in full. The banks didn't care whether or not the borrowers were actually going to pay back the loan; by the time any borrower could default, the loan would have already been collaterized into a "AAA" bond and resold to some greater fool at a hedge fund. The banks merely collected their huge commissions and moved on.