Imposing Quote by Henry Paulson

Incredibly, at this critical juncture in financial history, after which so much changed so quickly, the only constraint in the subprime mortgage market was…

— Michael Lewis

The impact on the broader economy and financial markets of the problems in the subprime markets seems likely to be contained.

— Ben Bernanke

I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.

— Christina Romer

People are looking back and trying to, you know, get compensation for bad mortgages and all the rest of it in some of the…

— Hillary Clinton

I and others were mistaken early on in saying that the subprime crisis would be contained. The causal relationship between the housing problem and…

— Ben Bernanke

What began as a subprime lending problem has spread to other, less risky mortgages and contributed to excess home inventories that have pushed down…

— Henry Paulson

Fannie and Freddie made two-thirds of all subprime mortgages. That is not a free market institution. That entity, along with the Fed printing too…

— Dave Brat

Right now we think that rates will stay low, that you'll be able to get a mortgage below seven percent and that's kicked off…

— Franklin Raines

And I think we need a combination of a freeze, potentially, and also we need to sit down with the - with the banking…

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Yeah, I bought a house with a subprime mortgage in 2007. It was a two-year fixed rate and, like everybody else in America, I…

— Tim Dillon

In June 2005, mortgage rates were at 40-year lows, and risk premiums on mortgage securities were at all-time lows. Once the banks migrated to…

— Michael Burry

I had begun to worry about the housing market back in 2003, when lenders first resurrected interest-only mortgages, loosening their credit standards to generate…

— Michael Burry