Well after a short while in the mortgage industry I was able to anticipate the collapse of:
Countrywide
Indymac
Lehman Brothers (although I doubted this would happen because of their position in the federal reserve)
Washington Mutual
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Now its tougher than ever since few banks with a decent amount of exposure are left. I think BofA is going to suffer, but not fail. Wells Fargo seems to have navigated this very well and offset many of their bad mortgages with all of Washington Mutuals A paper loans in 2006. Bad move WaMu.
HSBC may be the next to go. They did lots of subprime and 2nds. With depreciation and their second lien position, it is likely they will lose on every foreclosure that lent on. They also did a bunch of subprime and "Subprime seconds" in early 2006, but backed out of that practice quicker than most. I also heard about this bank having financial problems in early 2007.
Countrywide
Indymac
Lehman Brothers (although I doubted this would happen because of their position in the federal reserve)
Washington Mutual
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Now its tougher than ever since few banks with a decent amount of exposure are left. I think BofA is going to suffer, but not fail. Wells Fargo seems to have navigated this very well and offset many of their bad mortgages with all of Washington Mutuals A paper loans in 2006. Bad move WaMu.
HSBC may be the next to go. They did lots of subprime and 2nds. With depreciation and their second lien position, it is likely they will lose on every foreclosure that lent on. They also did a bunch of subprime and "Subprime seconds" in early 2006, but backed out of that practice quicker than most. I also heard about this bank having financial problems in early 2007.