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Archive for the 'real estate mortgage' category
The following is from The New York Times. A story about one man’s real estate melt down.
If there was anybody who should have avoided the mortgage catastrophe, it was I. As an economics reporter for The New York Times, I have been the paper’s chief eyes and ears on the Federal Reserve for the past [...]
05/19/09 |
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Alex Pollack reckons finance professionals did believe housing prices could fall, but just not on a national level. The data used to stress test mortgage assets was based on the experience of Texas and other oil-patch states in the 1970s and 80s. It provided an instance of a housing bubble that led to falling house [...]
04/22/09 |
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John:
I read your blog regularly (and occasionally post comments), and was thinking that one of my recent blog posts might be of interest to your readers. It discussed a flaw in the American mortgage system that Lester Thurow pointed out to me – that mortgages aren’t tied to future streams of incomes and how this [...]
03/24/09 |
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Fannie Mae, the giant mortgage purchaser owned by taxpayers, has cut hundreds of jobs over the past four weeks, reports National Mortgage News. Hmmm
I thought government officials wanted Fannie to increase its support of home lending by expanding operations. I guess I’m wrong.
01/24/09 |
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Beginning Jan. 1, 2010 Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae will be required to obtain loan-level identifiers for the loan originator, loan origination company, field appraiser and supervisory appraiser. The purpose of the requirement is to prevent fraud and predatory lending, to ensure mortgages owned and guaranteed by those Enterprises are originated by individuals who have complied [...]
01/18/09 |
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