When 'good' mortgages go bad

Story date: 2008-02-16 02:48:00
Added on: 2008-02-17 12:36:41

Minneapolis Star Tribune - Beginning next year, hundreds of thousands of middle-class borrowers who have good credit will find that their mortgage payments are going up and that they owe more than they originally borrowed to buy or refinance their homes. The culprit: Payment ...


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