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1. Thunder ? Greater Fool ? The Troubled Future of Real Estate

   The Economic Populist article reports: ?The year long stock market rally has managed to push bank equity values up and give them the appearance of health, but their underlying portfolios are still full of toxic assets that have continued to fall in price. ...... ?FHA commissioner David Stevens said at a House hearing Thursday that his agency would insure 300000 fewer loans per year if the mandatory down payment was hiked from the current level of 3.5 percent to 5 percent. ...

1. Matthew Yglesias » Belated Treasury Meeting Blogging

   scott Says: March 9th, 2010 at 4:16 pm. Lack of economic activity is part of it, but assigning primary responsibility to that is overstating it. The banks are continuing to get killed on their crap CRE loans, which won't change any time soon. Check it out. .... TARP, $8K FHA, and mortgage assistance, it has all been buying time trying to let the air out of the balloon slowly ? to keep the market from plummeting in a glut of fire sales. But for 12 solid months, ...

1. Uncontrolled Lending to Consumers Spawned the Financial Crisis ...

   First, lenders made loans that virtually invited default. Thus, Countrywide's manual approved the making of loans that left consumers as little as $550 a month to live on, or $1000 for a family of four. ...... In late 2008 the government correctly recognized that in order to quickly reverse the economic downturn, it'd have to engineer a housing bubble, for home building, housing market, and cocommitant financing collectively impact nearly half of the economy. ...