Showing posts with label MacroMavens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MacroMavens. Show all posts

Sunday, July 15, 2007

More on housing loan losses

Stephanie Pomboy's MacroMavens site gave this worrying picture of banks' exposure to real estate risk, on 7 June 2005 - (I'd be grateful for an update for 2007). The Mogambo Guru recently (12 July) quoted her firm as saying (in Barron's) that $693 billion of mortgages are now in the red, with a possible $210 billion in outright losses.