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United Kingdom
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 29.5 W x 39.4 H x 1.6 D in
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Visualisation of a 'sub-prime' family home "Following the tech bubble and the economic trauma that followed the terrorist attacks in the U.S. on September 11, 2001, the Federal Reserve stimulated the struggling U.S. economy by cutting interest rates to historically low levels. As a result, the housing market soared for several years. To capitalize on the home-buying frenzy, some lenders extended mortgages to those who could not otherwise qualify for traditional loans because of a weak credit history or other disqualifying credit measures. This period even sparked the NINJA loan: no income, no job, no asset – no problem, money was easy flowing. Investment firms were eager to buy these loans and repackage them as mortgage-backed securities (MBSs) and other structured credit products. Many subprime mortgages were adjustable-rate loans with reasonable interest rates but could reset to a dramatically higher interest rate after a given period. And they did when credit and liquidity dried up during the teeth of the Great Recession. This sudden increase in mortgage rates played a major role in the growing number of defaults, starting in 2007 and peaking in 2009. Significant job losses throughout the economy did not help; as many borrowers were losing their jobs, their mortgage payment was going up at the same time. Without a job, it was nearly impossible to refinance the mortgage with a lower fixed rate. The ensuing meltdown caused dozens of banks to go bankrupt and led to enormous losses on Wall Street and hedge funds that marketed or invested heavily in risky mortgage-related securities. The fallout was a major contributor to the lengthy economic downturn that followed." Investopedia
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:29.5 W x 39.4 H x 1.6 D in
Frame:Brown
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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Ships From:United Kingdom.
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United Kingdom
Retro-modern - that's what you can call my work. My palette is loud - I dream in colour. -------- It's been a broken journey. I discovered paint first as a child in junior school - used only black and grays much to the dismay of the art teacher - also, scribbled obsessively with pen and pencil; pages and pages - anything and everything. Then virtually nothing - After a hiatus of years, decades, living alone in Dubai, fed-up with pub crawling, slipping into depression, unearthed a dried out box of water colours during a clean up my daughter's desk - four years after she'd left to join her mother in London. It was a dam burst - I been painting since - Art ? If it is true - it is. That was 14 years ago. In London now - the light is different - the air free; starting to dream again - different dreams.
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