America Quote by Tim Dillon

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

Subprime mortgages, typically defined as those issued to borrowers with low credit scores, make up roughly the riskiest one-third of all mortgages.

— Michael Burry

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

I don't see (subprime mortgage market troubles) imposing a serious problem. I think it's going to be largely contained.

— Henry Paulson

I tried to sell mortgages for just under a year and saw the tail end of the mortgage crisis. I was not great at…

— 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

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

Opt for a fixed-rate rather than an adjustable-rate mortgage.

— Suze Orman

“So now as always you could get AAA ratings, not for subprime mortgages, obviously bad, but for submarine mortgages, clearly much better! And the…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“If you are going to buy, a prudent rule of thumb is not to carry a mortgage greater than two years' income.”

— John Robbins

What caused the economic collapse 2008? It was the subprime mortgage crisis.

— Rush Limbaugh

Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to…

— Barbara Corcoran