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15 - 20% of subprime borrowers defaulted on their mortgages. That's a lot of people! Imagine, 1 in 5 of your neighbors defaulted and were foreclosed upon. This is not suppose to happen.

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Thanks, yes thats a lot. I'll double down on what I wrote as the CDOs contained a mix of all borrowers of all levels of credit worthiness. It is likely we are agreeing on our stats, but I will concede that the subprime variant therefore can't be reliably trusted to make payments, just as the models predict.

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