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Nope. There are plenty of backup records for all of the debts. Physical records of deeds, contracts, etc. And it's possible much of the data could have been restored through backups and data retrieval methods. What this would have caused would be delays and difficulties in handling existing mortgages but the biggest impact would have likely been an inability of people to apply for new mortgages using fanny mae, which is hardly a win for anybody.


In retrospect, it probably would have been a good thing.




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