It’s not just monetary policy, it’s mortgage policy

From Sober Look, this scares me:


So much for shifting the US mortgage business into the private markets. Going forward the Fed will be a buyer of more than half of all new agency MBS issued. At this point one might as well make the GSEs part of the Fed or give the central bank a mortgage origination capability.

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Published on September 13, 2012 16:16
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