CNBC: US Recession Could Last Up to 36 Months: Roubini — Among his solutions: fix the housing market by breaking “every mortgage contract.” Bernanke said 2010. No wonder Roubini is called Dr. Doom. For more on Roubini, see Nouriel Roubini’s Global EconoMonitor.
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Washington Post: More FHA-Backed Mortgages Go Bad Without a Single Payment — Many borrowers are defaulting as quickly as they take out the loans. In the past year alone, the number of borrowers who failed to make more than a single payment before defaulting on FHA-backed mortgages has nearly tripled, far outpacing the agency’s overall growth in new loans, according to a Washington Post analysis of federal data.