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As the fifth anniversary of the Federal Reserve's policy of keeping interest rates near zero approaches, the market for subprime borrowing is once again becoming frothy, this time in the car business. As with mortgages in 2006 and 2007, the central bank's stimulus is making it easier for people with spotty credit to buy cars as yield-starved investors purchase riskier bonds linked to auto loans.

http://www.autonews.com/article/20131108/RETAIL01/131109825/frothy-subprime-borrowing-drives-u-s-sales-raises-alarms#

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