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Option ARMs: What, Me Pay?

by: Paul Kedrosky November 25, 2008    
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An eye-opening chart on outstanding option ARM loan principal by vintage year. Turns out that when people have an option not to pay, they don’t – and then the principal gets larger. Gosh, this mortgage stuff is tricky.

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