Bloomberg predicts nightmare scenario for US housing

Today, Bloomberg provided the most disturbing scenario yet for the US housing market, suggesting that as many as 1.5 million Americans might lose their homes to foreclosure, a 100,000 housing related jobs could disappear and that as many as 100 subprime lenders might go into bankruptcy.

Certainly, the latter prediction is well on its way to becoming a reality. So far, around 33 subprime mortgage brokers have ceased trading. The foreclosure rate is also on a rocket-like trajectory. As for job losses, there does seem to be rather a lot of idle and under-employed realtors out there.

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