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“60 Minutes” reports mortgage crisis is far from over

CBS News reporter Scott Pelley’s report focuses on a second wave of of defaults in the coming months spurred on by investments with such exotic names as “Alt-A” and “option ARM.”
The first wave of bad news came from sub-prime lending which went to the least credit worthy borrowers and then those mortgages were bundled and [...]