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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (22542)9/16/2007 3:42:47 AM
From: Snowshoe  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 220165
 
The ARM, zero down, and interest-only mortgages are good for certain specific situations, such as corporate officers waiting for an open period to cash in stock options.

But these devices have been badly abused on a broad scale in recent years. Failure to prevent these abuses via policy/regulation is having a horrific cost.