Fed Moves to Maintain Low Mortgage Rates: 5 Things to Know

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As General Petraeus once said about Iraq,

"Tell me how this ends". The notion that the Fed is supplying 90% or more of all mortgage money right now ought to scare everybody in the country except today's home buyer and today's home seller.

The notion that the Fed can just print trillions of dollars at will ought to scare anybody with money in a bank. I

Muser of NM @ Sep 23, 2009 20:03:36 PM

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