A growing number of the people whose homes are in foreclosure are refusing to slink away in shame. They are fashioning a sort of homemade mortgage modification, one that brings their payments all the way down to zero. They use the money they save to get back on their feet or just get by.
A second wave of home defaults will strike Banks in 2010-2012. Over $1.5 trillion dollars of bad home loans will threaten the banking system and risk economic collapse. Condensed from a 60 minutes expose.
