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The combination of falling U.S. housing prices and the large number of subprime borrowers defaulting on their mortgages just prior to the financial crisis of 2008 created a solvency problem for U.S. commercial banks that had provided mortgage loans to subprime borrowers and held those mortgages on their balance sheets (ie. they did not sell them to Special Purpose Vehicles). Briefly explain how these two events could threaten to make those U.S commercial banks insolvent.
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