"In the mortgage industry, they are called 'liar loans' - mortgages approved without requiring proof of the borrower's income or assets. The worst of them earn the nickname 'ninja loans,' short for 'no income, no job, and (no) assets.'
The nation's struggling housing market, already awash in subprime foreclosures, is now getting hit with a second wave of losses as homeowners with liar loans default in record numbers. In some parts of the country, the loans are threatening to drag out the mortgage crisis for another two years.
'Those loans are going to perform very badly,' said Thomas Lawler, a Virginia housing economist. 'They're heavily concentrated in states where home prices are plummeting' such as California, Florida, Nevada and Arizona."
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Liar loans to prolong mortgage crisis
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