The standard story of financial bubbles has that financing gets progressively more tenuous as the bubble expands.
BusinessWeek has a nice piece about the latest and most pernicious financial innovation of the current bubble, the option ARM. It's too bad that no one in a position of authority was awake before the bubble grew to such proportions.
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