Quote from jem:
You all act as if this market placed was not rigged.
Look until the Wall Street con men realized they were back stopped by the government... people in CA for had to pay 4- 6 points higher in their interest rates and 2-4% to hard money lenders for the last 20% of the loan. (because we had some non recourse loans.)
Then Wall Street set up the big fraud in which they underpriced the hard money guys. They could do this because they were not risking their own money.
They were selling China's money but China new the Fed would back stop them.
Now after the systems crumbled we have the FHA spending over a trillion dollars - giving out below market mortgages at 96.5 to 100%... to save the banks and stablize the low end of the market.
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The market worked fine until Clinton eliminated glass steagall, congress choose not to regulate CDOS, wall street went from partnerships to corporations --- and Barney Frank Chris Dodd on most of Congress sold themselves to banks.
Get the government out back stops out of banking. You will see market, risk, loans and interest rates balance out again.
We will instantly see higher interest rates and lower house prices.
I'm wit ya on this one.