Tags: As of March 31, 2010, the Federal Reserve has stopped the policy of purchasing mortgage-backed securities. The reason the Fed has implemented this policy in the first place was to help keep mortgage rates low while, in effect, subsidize the housing market and to provide capital to banks in difficulty as well as investors.
Posts Tagged ‘real estate’
December 9th, 2009
real estate market
When the talk of investment, retirement, and just finding ways to make money, real estate is an idea that always seems to find its way into the talk. Rightly, real estate is a sound investment in more ways than just the potential growth in value, and many who do not like the volatility of equity [...]
