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In the sub-prime crisis, banks and insurance companies that had been gambling found themselves in difficulties.
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I have already expressed criticism about how slow they were in downgrading their credit ratings for structural finance backed up by sub-prime lending.
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To put this into context, the securitised market for credit cards is about as large as the sub-prime mortgage market.
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What started as a sub-prime crisis has now moved way beyond this to embrace the whole economy.
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However, largely speaking, the sub-prime mortgage lending area was unregulated.
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These securities, backed by the sub-prime market, were bought on a massive scale by hedge funds mostly domiciled in tax havens, which are exempt from any regulation.
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They allowed the sub-prime crisis to get out of control by continuing to give strong ratings to institutions that had packaged these devious products and sold them on.
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Terms such as sub-prime lending, non-standard consumer credit, and payday loans are often used in connection with this type of consumer finance.
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