Connection between mortgage debt and national debt?

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By Patrick Follow Thu, 12 Apr 2012, 4:11pm 4,082 views 17 comments
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Maybe this is just a coincidence, but the total mortgage debt at about $13.5 trillion is similar in size to the national debt at about $15 trillion.

Could there be some deeper causal connection between them?

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