Mortgage News from Around the World
JOSHPE/MURDOCK: Who's in charge here?Washington Times, DC - 10 This would dedicate taxpayer funds to guarantee home-mortgage payments, thereby encouraging banks to lower their...
Bubbleheads and DupesAmerican Spectator - 7 ... is that President Bush excessively promoted growth in home ownership without sufficiently regulating the banks and...
Democrat DeregulatorsAmerican Spectator - 2 The financial markets froze up because the Democrats prevailed on mortgage lenders -- mainly Freddie Mac and Fannie Mac...
Anatomy of a ScandalAmerican Spectator - 2 ... a notch below what our underwriting has required who have been relegated to paying significantly...
New year; same old Gordon BrownSpectator.co.uk, UK - 11 “We will do our best to help people trying hard to pay their own mortgages...
The Brownies just keep on comingSpectator.co.uk (subscription), UK - 2 Our average is about 5% 6% interest rates and mortgage rates .” This ‘metric...
Battening down the hatchesSlovak Spectator, Slovakia - 4 The Slovak Bank Association has already said, for example, that mortgage loans will become more expensive and...
Wrestling With Capitalist PigsAmerican Spectator After the takeover the public has discovered that Senator Dodd got a sweetheart loan through Countrywide Mortgage , and...
Britons in a pickleBusiness Spectator, Australia - 4 Between 2000 and 2007, while US home mortgage debt more than doubled – with government-sponsored Fannie Mae...
Wait just a minute...Business Spectator, Australia - 3 I think Australian households are now under considerable pressure – the cut is a move in the...
S&P may cut Fannie, FreddieBusiness Spectator, Australia - 10 Ratings agency Standard & Poor's may downgrade the subordinated bonds of US mortgage finance companies Fannie...
SCOREBOARD: Housing is allBusiness Spectator, Australia - 3 The UK mortgage data, in particular, looks awful, and portends deep falls in house prices, and eventual...
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