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Eric Hovde: “You are going to create more strategic defaulters.”

Featuring: Eric Hovde, Republican | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 16:28

As the neighbor across the street, I had these discussions with the fdic, the heads of the fdic. I said, this is not going to work. You are going to create more strategic defaulters. It got to the point where a bank that I own in California, Community Bank, I asked to my board of directors that were sitting around the table, I said, … (16:28–16:31)

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Asserts that the policy of principal reduction would lead to more strategic mortgage defaults.

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