By the time the current housing market downturn ends, 10 million foreclosures will have been completed, according to a lecturer from Harvard. He noted that while two-thirds of mortgages were originated by depository institutions in the 1980s, the share shifted by the 1990s to mortgage bankers who originated four-out-of-five mortgages but were “essentially” unregulated.
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