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attention to the interest rate think about the collateral rate.
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Why is it twenty percent that you have to put down?
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Maybe it should be ten percent or forty percent.
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Well, in fact, that number changes all the time.
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So here what I've done is--the pink line from 2000 to the
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future, that pink line is Shiller's Housing Index inverted.
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So you notice the scale on the right is the housing prices,
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but I've inverted it, and on the left I have the down payment percentage.
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These are non-agency loans.
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We'll come back to the graph later--
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I don't have time to explain exactly how I got it--
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but what you see is that from 2000 onwards the down payment