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NINJA loans

September 25, 2008

“NINJA loans … no income, no job, no assets.”

I just heard that on John Gormley Live.  Perfect.

Would you loan money to someone with little to no earned income?  I wouldn’t.  Even if they were family.

I’m not an economist.  I’ve never taken an economics course.  However, I do have common sense and logic.  That’s all it takes to know that loaning money to people who can’t pay it back is a stupid plan and bound to fail.

Ann Coulter has a fantastic piece summarizing the situation.

Instead of looking at “outdated criteria,” such as the mortgage applicant’s credit history and ability to make a down payment, banks were encouraged to consider nontraditional measures of credit-worthiness, such as having a good jump shot or having a missing child named “Caylee.”

Threatening lawsuits, Clinton’s Federal Reserve demanded that banks treat welfare payments and unemployment benefits as valid income sources to qualify for a mortgage. That isn’t a joke — it’s a fact.

RTWT.

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