Atrios links to this BusinessWeek article on "Nightmare Mortgages": Option ARMs that tempt people in with a low initial minimum payment but that can hold nasty surprises later on. If the bubble does indeed burst, things could get very ugly for a large number of people. (Full disclosure: My wife and I are not homeowners, but we will probably want to become homeowners in the near future, so it's in our interest for housing prices to come down.)
posted by Zachary Drake at 11:55 PM on Sep 1, 2006
"Housing bubble burst watch"
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