Why Our Housing Market Failed and Why a Bailout is Necessary

Why did the housing market FAIL?  GREED, CORRUPTION and IGNORANCE! 

In 2003, I was taking some Mortgage Banking courses to obtain my Mortgage Banking Certification.  One of the courses was introducing, what they termed “New” instruments for financing mortgages.  The new instruments were not available in the state of Texas at that time due to the state Homestead Laws.  However, later that year they would become effective because the laws would be relaxed allowing homeowners to decide if they wanted the protection of the current laws or wanted to take advantage of one of the new financial mortgage instruments to get more house than current laws allowed them to have with their present income.

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Mortgage loans in the news

Mortgage loans are in the news today as two of the largest mortgage companies in the United States, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, lost nearly half of their stock value during the week of July 11, 2008.  They own over one half of all the mortgages in the United States, with a total value of $5.2 trillion dollars.  They have posted $11 billion in losses.  Read more