Mortgage foreclosure rates soared 53 percent in August, compared with a year earlier, and many people who were eager to buy a house with low "teaser" interest rates and creative financing are in trouble. Writing for the Acton Institute, Senior Fellow in Economics Jennifer Roback Morse expects new calls for goverment oversight of the mortgage industry, which is already highly regulated. A better idea, she suggests, would be for buyers to examine their motives for acquiring real estate with gimmicky loans and take some responsibility for their actions.
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Class Description
Prequisites: EC 221, 222. Topics in monetary policy, theory, monetary standards, the origin of money, financial markets, interest rates, time preferences, the history of banking, the commercial banking system, central banking, and the Federal Reserve System are covered. This web site includes questions, problems, news items, and analysis that pertains to class discussions, as well as other announcements and notes.
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