Subprime Lawsuits Rising Rapidly

By Paul Kedrosky · Friday, December 21, 2007 ·

Subprime lawsuits are rising rapidly, which you had to know was going to happen. Hey, what were all those lawyers going to do after the decline in option-backdating suits? Get real jobs? Become economically useful? Naaah.

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Somewhat more seriously, the first subprime suit was February 8, 2007, and the number of such suits quadrupled in the second half of the year versus the first half. I have to believe it will grow by at least the same amount over the next six months, making this one of the largest legal adventures in recent memory.

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