The most popular beliefs as to what caused the U.S. mortgage crisis and subsequent economic collapse are wrong, according to a new study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
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Fed Study Rejects Standard Explanations for Housing Bubble
Posted by mortgage 18 days ago (Editorial)
Boston Fed: Housing crisis wasn?t industry?s fault
Posted by mortgage 19 days ago (Editorial)
The cause of the housing crisis wasn?t the financial industry deceiving mortgage borrowers and investors but instead overly optimistic beliefs about house prices, according to a research paper released by the Boston Fed.
HSH.com Weekly Mortgage Rates Radar: Mortgage Rates Steady as Fed Expected to Hold Course
Posted by mortgage 28 days ago (Editorial)
HSH.com releases its latest Weekly Mortgage Rates Radar showing virtually no change in mortgage rates from the previous week. The Weekly Mortgage Rates Radar reports the average rates and points offered by lenders for the two most popular types of mortgages, the conforming 30-year fixed-rate mortgage and the conforming 5/1 adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM). While rates for fixed-rate mortgages were
The Fed: Bernanke: Housing was trigger of crisis, not cause
Posted by mortgage 39 days ago (Editorial)
Subprime mortgages and the housing bubble were the trigger while high leverage, unstable funding and deficient risk management and supervision were the vulnerabilities that led to the financial crisis, Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke says.
Fed lays egg & mortgage rates bunny-hop up
Posted by mortgage 48 days ago (Editorial)
Mortgage rates inched up this week after the Fed signaled to investors that it won't buy more bonds to provide further stimulus to the U.S. economy.
Fed Lays an Egg and Mortgage Rates Bunny-Hop Up
Posted by mortgage 48 days ago (Editorial)
The Fed says the economy is awake, so it's switching to decaf. Mortgage rates begin to stir.
Fed targets Morgan Stanley over home loans
Posted by mortgage 50 days ago (Editorial)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve on Tuesday said it would seek damages from Morgan Stanley due to "a pattern of misconduct and negligence" in the handling of home loans by one of the investment bank's mortgage servicing units. The Fed wants Morgan Stanley to review foreclosures overseen by the mortgage-servicing unit to ensure documents were not mishandled and borrowers di
St. Louis Fed Blows Subprime Study
Posted by mortgage 50 days ago (Editorial)
A new study on the government's role in housing bubble doesn't really add up.
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