FHFA yesterday released a sweeping paper using its own internal data along with everything else it could find on U.S. purchase-money mortgage loans from 1990 to 2017 to derive a new stress-default risk paradigm. Like a previous ground-breaking paper, FHFA’s working paper concludes that lending to subprime borrowers isn’t the problem – crisis risks come from loan terms that facilitate property and household leverage.
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