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Preventing the Next Housing Crisis
podcast The kinds of loose-to-nonexistent mortgage requirements leading up to the financial crisis are not exactly making a comeback. But today some loans are brushing up close to the post-crisis regulatory lines meant to prevent a repeat performance. That is the view of Wharton real estate professor Benjamin Keys and fellow researchers who have designed a tool that could become an early warning signal whenever looser loan standards threaten to breach regulatory guardrails. In this Knowledge@Wharton interview, Keys discusses the evolution of problematic mortgage loans, where things stand today and how to ward off ... (full story)