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Applying Fishbone Analysis on U.S Mortgage Investment

What make U.S Mortgage market worsen and worsen these days? Based on information in the above two articles, I will explain the situation briefly using Fishbone Analysis.

What are the causes?

1. Public investigation of questionable foreclosure documents
2. Furor from homeowners that mortgage lenders have been evicting houses by using flawed court papers

These lead to…

1. Further suspension of foreclosures
2. Halt foreclosures

In most of the banks in the states!

Finally, the result is

1. Mortgage lenders have to keep advancing payments that will go to all mortgage bondholders instead of foreclosures.
2. Homeowners uses this advantage so they are “not willing” to pay.

In the end, Mortgage lenders don’t have enough revenue to pay the mortgage investor which eventually leads to “further losses in the already-battered $2.8 trillion market for residential mortgage-backed securities.”

I think Fishbone Analysis is quite helpful when the case are involved with so many factors. The structure of the analysis provides better overview of the case, which makes me understand the situation better.