#mortgage

The biggest culprits in the housing fiasco came from the private sector, and more specifically from a mortgage industry that was out of control. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#came #control #fiasco #housing #industry

The FHA's success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation's mortgage finance system. It also demonstrates that although government intervention in the economy during the Great Recession was messy, things would have been a lot messier without it. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#although #been #demonstrates #during #economy

The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal government was even contemplating reducing the principal on some troubled mortgages. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#contemplating #crisis #disgust #early #even

There is no better way to quickly buoy hard-pressed homeowners than helping them take advantage of the currently record low fixed mortgage rates and significantly reduce their monthly mortgage payments. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#better #better way #buoy #currently #fixed

Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the financial calamity and Great Recession that followed. Today, by contrast, credit is too tight. Mortgage loans are particularly hard to get, creating a problem for the housing market and the broader economy. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#broader #bubble #calamity #contrast #creating

I think the millions of people who had been able to renegotiate their mortgages so they are paying lower interest rates are better off. ↗

— David Axelrod

#been #better #better off #had #i

The two questions that anyone ever asks me are: 'Are house prices going to go down?' and 'Is it a good time to fix my mortgage rate?' ↗

— Evan Davis

#asks #down #ever #fix #go

The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#flourish #human #into #locked #moment

People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you're OK with it, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you've got unease, then you've got to make a change. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#brother #change #complacent #constructed #feel

And I think we need a combination of a freeze, potentially, and also we need to sit down with the - with the banking industry and talk to them about ways in which we can help them be able to work those mortgages out, because it's absolutely imperative that we keep people in their homes. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#about #absolutely #also #banking #because