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U.S. Mortgage Disaster: Round Two?


Dec. 15, 2008 (SmartPros) Sub-prime loans may not be end of our mortgage woes according to investment fund manager Whitney Tilson.



Thought the worst was here? Think again. On the heels of the current mortgage meltdown created by sub-prime loans, investment fund manager Whitney Tilson warns of a second crisis caused by Alt-A and option ARM loans that are due to reset in 2010 and beyond.

Tilson recently told CBS's "60 Minutes" that a second mortgage meltdown is inevitable given the non-sub-prime, but equally questionable, lending practices commonplace during the mortgage boom of 2005 to 2007.

Tilson predicts up to 70 percent of these risky low-doc, no-doc, no income/no asset and "teaser rate" loans will default. Read more about the implications of a second mortgage crisis in the "60 Minutes" story A Second Mortgage Disaster on the Horizon.

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