Darn- the article was actually satire, but I liked the idea, anyway:
Just in time for the holiday season, the Parker Brothers company is announcing a major revamping of its flagship board game in a new release it is calling, “Subprime Monopoly”.
Whereas players in the original Monopoly earned money to buy and develop properties at fixed prices, in “Subprime Monopoly” players borrow obscene amounts of money to purchase overvalued properties with skyrocketing prices and borrowing costs.
“With the advent of the ongoing housing bubble and mortgage loan crisis, we thought the time was right to make some major changes to the rules of the game”, says Parker Bros. creative director Mitt Mason. Originally invented by Charles Darrow in 1935, Monopoly first became a huge hit in the middle of the great depression, and has since been played by over 750 million people. “It seemed somehow fitting that we change the rules now that property prices are falling nationwide, given that the game was first popularized the last time this happened in the 1930’s. And the way Americans buy and sell property has changed a lot since then. Who in America buys anything these days with money they have actually saved up, and who today buys property at a stable and reasonable price?”
"Subprime Monopoly" wasn’t the first name the creator had in mind:
“There’s nothing that says 21st century America quite like a night of living beyond one’s means, destroying your credit, and happily following an investment ponzi scheme that is doomed to failure”. Indeed, Mason planned to call the game, “Housing Doom Monopoly”, but changed the name at the last minute in order to not be confused with a popular U.S. housing bubble commentary website.
Note to Parker Brothers- For the right price, should you ever decide to release this game, we’re OK with the original name! 
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Would you take payment in the form of CDO’s?
I’d drive an hour a day through traffic to get that game.
But I’d want a no-doc 100% loan so I could afford to buy five, play one, and flip the others.
Could I still play?
TC-
Do we get an “implicit guarantee” from the government if we take them?
Twist – thanks for posting the article; glad y’all liked it!
A gimmick Monopoly like this would be a lot more interesting than the various boring flavors of Monopoly (“Spider-man Monopoly”, “Simpsons Monopoly”, “Dog Monopoly”, “Cat Monopoly”…ad nauseum) that you find in Toys R Us today, don’tcha think?
And hey, maybe kid’s will learn something about living within their means…
>>But Id want a no-doc 100% loan so I could >>afford to buy five, play one, and flip the >>others.
Oooh – you’re getting very close to one of the ideas I have for a follow-up to this story, that I hope to write up early next week.
Hilarious article!
You want me to give you an explicit implicit guarantee? Nice try. Just because I was dumb enough to buy in 2004? “Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice.. won’t get fooled again.” -Dubya/The Who?