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1   Patrick   2018 Mar 29, 2:53pm  

Despite tough banking rules put in place after last decade's housing crash, the mortgage market again faces the risk of a meltdown that could endanger the U.S. economy, warn two Berkeley Haas professors in a paper co-authored by Federal Reserve economists. The threat reflects a boom in nonbank mortgage companies, a category of independent lenders that are more lightly regulated and more financially fragile than banks—and which now originate half of all US home mortgages.

"If these firms go out of business, the mortgage market shuts down, and that has dire Implications for the overall health of the economy," says Richard Stanton, professor of finance and Kingsford Capital Management Chair in Business at Haas.
2   tovarichpeter   2018 Mar 29, 6:55pm  

My brother, who spent 45 years with HUD, thought Patrick’s book The Housing Trap, was brilliant.
3   BayArea   2018 Mar 29, 8:32pm  

tovarichpeter says
My brother, who spent 45 years with HUD, thought Patrick’s book The Housing Trap, was brilliant.


Patrick's book was awesome. I wish it existed sooner.

It's still the only book of it's kind, that I am aware of.
4   Patrick   2018 Mar 29, 9:27pm  

BayArea says
It's still the only book of it's kind, that I am aware of.


Thank you. I'm planning to rework it and upgrade it a bit.

Also bringing back the housing news links. I think that we may see more housing turbulence as long term rates (and therefore mortgage rates) finally start to rise again.
5   MAGA   2018 Mar 29, 9:39pm  

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says
Drunk, stoned starving REALTORS cruising around in stolen self-navigating cars shooting out the windows of abandoned hulks!



I had a Realtor call on the phone this afternoon. He wanted to know if I would like to invest in some houses he was trying to flip. FU.K YOU Realtard!!!
6   JH   2018 Mar 30, 8:21am  

You don't need to rework your book. Just change the year. That's all this article is. Someone dug it up from 2006 and rewrote the date. The CA housing market repeats--again--and brings the rest of the country with it--again
7   Patrick   2018 Mar 30, 12:33pm  

True. It really is amazing how everything repeats. The older I get, the more I see the cycles.

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