Thread: Housing bailout
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Old 07-26-2008, 01:55 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Haight View Post
So there are no victims in this situation?
Nope, basically no victims (except the stupid, and theoretically dealing with stupid people is not a crime), unless you consider criminals victims.

However, I would totally support legislation that punished loan originators for bad loans they originated (including them shouldering a portion of the defaulted loan value) and some method of punishing bad appraisers, since both were working together to defraud people.
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