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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (108947)	8/30/2007 7:09:53 PM
From: Box-By-The-Riviera™	Respond to of 132070

does she let her writing staff eat cake?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (108947)	8/31/2007 1:32:08 AM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

“With these advances in technology, lenders have taken advantage of credit-scoring models and other techniques for efficiently extending credit to a broader spectrum of consumers. The widespread adoption of these models has reduced the costs of evaluating the creditworthiness of borrowers, and in competitive markets, cost reductions tend to be passed through to borrowers. Where once more-marginal applicants would simply have been denied credit, lenders are now able to quite efficiently judge the risk posed by individual applicants and to price that risk appropriately. These improvements have led to rapid growth in subprime mortgage lending; indeed, today subprime mortgages account for roughly 10 percent of the number of all mortgages outstanding, up from just 1 or 2 percent in the early 1990s." Chairman Greenspan Federal Reserve System’s Fourth Annual Community Affairs Research Conference, Washington, D.C. April 8, 2005 postmanpatel.blogspot.com