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‘I Can Be the Bank’: Individual Investors Buy Busted Mortgages
Wall Street Journal, Nov. 20, 2018–Ben Eisen, Cezary Podkul (subscription)
A decade after the housing crisis, new risk takers invest in nonperforming loans–often written off by banks–and push the borrowers to start paying on them again.