Just Walk Away


Posted by Bruno on January 29th, 2008

Here’s a good sign the housing market isn’t coming back anytime soon.

The real irony here is that the banks shot themselves in the foot with this one. If they hadn’t pushed through the Bankruptcy Bill in 2005 — which made it harder to delcare bankruptcy and walk away from credit cards — home owners wouldn’t have shifted all their debt into their houses, resulting in so much negative equity.

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