America Sodomized by Own Economy, Feels Betrayed

O jealous lover

The rate of one-to-four-unit residential loans at least one payment past due rose to a seasonally adjusted 6.99 percent in the third quarter, up from 6.41 percent in the second quarter and 5.59 percent a year ago.

Unemployment rose to a 15-year high of 6.7 percent.

The share of loans in the foreclosure process rose to a record 2.97 percent from 2.75 percent the prior quarter and 1.69 percent a year earlier, the trade group said.

"California and Florida have about 54 percent and 41 percent of the prime and subprime ARM foreclosure starts respectively," Brinkmann said in the release.

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This recession is natural selection.

Live beyond your means -- treat loans as free money -- and mathematics will beat you senseless when it equalizes values.