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Methodology

By David Donald

How the Center compiled data for Financial Meltdown articles

Excerpts from this story referencing "Home Mortgage Disclosure Act":

"… or its mortgage analysis, the Center used federal data collected under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA), enacted by Congress in 1975. The data included more than 350 milli …"