Date: August 21st, 2007

To mark it to market, to mark it we go: Part 1, delinquents

21 August, 2007 (10:04) | Markets, Subprime, US News | No comments

No, not juvenile delinquents
 
With the spotlight shining on subprime loans, the New York Times adopts the classic personification-of-the-abstract approach by finding a single householder who’s fairly clearly in difficulties, and then generalizing expansively, along the way drawing almost precisely the wrong set of conclusions, starting from its lurid headline:
 
Mortgage Maze May Increase Foreclosures
 

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