AMERICAS

The Sub Prime: Who To Blame?

Wednesday, 21 May, 2008
Demonstrators protest against the big banks over the fall out of the sub prime mortgage market.

Welcome to the Sub Prime crisis; by the end of this year, it's expected almost 2-million American homes will have been repossessed by banks.

Families are being forced to walk away, simply unable to keep up with interest rates and mortgage repayments.

Video Journalist Mark Maley travels to the US to examine the crisis and gives his insight into what caused the fall out and what the future holds for America.

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Have Your Say: Can the US recover from the Sub Prime crisis?


Where to now for America? Find out this Wednesday night at 8:30pm on SBS TV.