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Big Changes Coming for Mortgage Market
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| February 07, 2011
| Diana Olick
Posted on 02/08/2011 5:12:11 PM PST by CutePuppy
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Government-Sponsored Enterprise Fannie Mae (and later spin-off Freddie Mac) was created by FDR in the midst of the Great Depression (the Great Correction) to buy, service, guarantee and securitize (package into MBSs) the FHA loans for the mortgages, to encourage and "reduce the risk" of home ownership.
The percentage of home ownership in the U.S. hasn't been higher relative to other developed economies, such as Canada, so these relics of the Great Depression should have been dismantled long time ago. Instead, the "progressives" used them as a bulwark in their "politically correct" policies of "ownership society" and even doubled down with Carter's CRA and Clinton's HUD and DOJ enforcement policies, and "community organizers" like Obama filing lawsuits against the banks to force "subprime" lending.
The result of all this massive government intervention in the market economy was not "unexpected," with nine out of ten mortgage loans now effectively under government control.
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posted on
02/08/2011 5:12:15 PM PST
by
CutePuppy
To: CutePuppy
Just give every black person in the country a free house and be done with it, Barry.
Just think how many votes that would buy!
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posted on
02/08/2011 5:22:43 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." -- Barry Soetoro, June 11, 2008)
To: CutePuppy
Fannie and Freddie were the enabling conduit that allowed companies like Countrywide to originate their crap loans and pass them along to be securitized and ultimately poison the MBS market, and subsequently cause the housing crash. That we had a quasi-govt entity creating securities to sell with implied govt backing was a ludicrous thing to start with. Now we’re paying for it.
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posted on
02/08/2011 5:23:39 PM PST
by
Free Vulcan
(Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum; CutePuppy; Free Vulcan
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posted on
02/08/2011 5:28:00 PM PST
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: dragnet2; Toddsterpatriot
Opps, that was supposed to be put into the memory hole!
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posted on
02/08/2011 5:35:34 PM PST
by
investigateworld
(Free Traders don't need guns 'cause they know The Peoples Republic of China are their friends)
To: CutePuppy
government's role in the mortgage market, which right now is 95 percent of all new originations, The Soviets would envy such perfect capture of private property.
Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.
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posted on
02/08/2011 5:39:33 PM PST
by
The Comedian
(Muslim Brotherhood = A.N.S.W.E.R = Soros = Obama)
To: investigateworld; dragnet2; All
Yes, Bush actually originated the phrase “ownership society” sometime around 2003-2004.
Unfortunately, by that time at least half of the “home-ownership society” has been tightly integrated with and controlled directly or indirectly by the government, via GSEs, FHA and VA programs. The rest is history.
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posted on
02/08/2011 6:30:19 PM PST
by
CutePuppy
(If you don't ask the right questions you may not get the right answers)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I hope black conservatives like Allen West, Herbert Cain and Thomas Sowell are comfortable with what you say, because we sure need them and I hope they feel welcome here. Incidently, I had the ignominy recently of opening an envelope from Wells Fargo to find a letter that they’d sold my mortgage to Fannie Mae. Ugh.
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posted on
02/08/2011 6:32:14 PM PST
by
gusopol3
To: gusopol3
All the people you mention are probably far more intelligent than you and are able to recognize sarcasm without a neon "sarcasm" sign.
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posted on
02/08/2011 6:57:26 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." -- Barry Soetoro, June 11, 2008)
To: investigateworld
Opps, that was supposed to be put into the memory hole!Best Rats and RINOs Money Could Buy
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posted on
02/08/2011 7:44:39 PM PST
by
LomanBill
(Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
To: The Comedian
I wouldn’t be surprised if Obama eventually hands over Freddie and Fannie to China to pay off our debts...
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posted on
02/08/2011 7:49:31 PM PST
by
surfer
(To err is human, to really foul things up takes a Democrat, don't expect the GOP to have the answer!)
To: LomanBill
Thanks, I remember the FRee Trade crowd cited high levels of home ownership as being proof that it worked.
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posted on
02/08/2011 7:55:14 PM PST
by
investigateworld
(Free Traders don't need guns 'cause they know The Peoples Republic of China are their friends)
To: CutePuppy; investigateworld; dragnet2; All
>>Yes, Bush actually originated the phrase ownership society sometime around 2003-2004.
Problem is W's noble vision got gamed by folks who were more like Henry F. Potter than George Bailey....
"__Ooops!__"
Welcome to Pottersville.
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posted on
02/08/2011 8:04:29 PM PST
by
LomanBill
(Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
To: LomanBill
And why do you think that happened?
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posted on
02/08/2011 8:11:38 PM PST
by
investigateworld
(Free Traders don't need guns 'cause they know The Peoples Republic of China are their friends)
To: investigateworld; Toddsterpatriot; CutePuppy; LomanBill
Opps, that was supposed to be put into the memory hole! They forgot to send me the memo. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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posted on
02/08/2011 8:13:26 PM PST
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: surfer
I wouldnt be surprised if Obama eventually hands over Freddie and Fannie to China to pay off our debts The PRC isn't as stupid as 48% of America. But point taken.
Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.
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posted on
02/08/2011 8:21:08 PM PST
by
The Comedian
(Muslim Brotherhood = A.N.S.W.E.R = Soros = Obama)
To: investigateworld
Still spreading that silly claim? LOL!
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posted on
02/08/2011 8:21:36 PM PST
by
Toddsterpatriot
(Math is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
To: investigateworld
"We didn't truly know the dangers of the market, because it was a dark market," says Brooksley Born, the head of an obscure federal regulatory agency -- the Commodity Futures Trading Commission [CFTC] -- who not only warned of the potential for economic meltdown in the late 1990s, but also tried to convince the country's key economic powerbrokers to take actions that could have helped avert the crisis. "They were totally opposed to it," Born says. "That puzzled me. What was it that was in this market that had to be hidden?"
Blue dress or not, even a monkey don't need a Weatherman to see which way the Wind blows.
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posted on
02/08/2011 8:22:56 PM PST
by
LomanBill
(Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
To: LomanBill
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posted on
02/08/2011 8:26:31 PM PST
by
investigateworld
(Free Traders don't need guns 'cause they know The Peoples Republic of China are their friends)
To: The Comedian
Well it would make over 95% of mortgage holders instant renters...lol
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posted on
02/08/2011 8:28:52 PM PST
by
surfer
(To err is human, to really foul things up takes a Democrat, don't expect the GOP to have the answer!)
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