mortgage Archives - IREF Europe https://en.irefeurope.org/tag/mortgage/ Independent research and policy analysis on fiscal, monetary, and regulatory issues in Europe Sun, 09 Jan 2022 21:32:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://en.irefeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2026/04/IREF-LinkedIn-Profile-DarkBlue-scaled.png mortgage Archives - IREF Europe https://en.irefeurope.org/tag/mortgage/ 32 32 The Butch Dutch https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/the-butch-dutch/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-butch-dutch https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/the-butch-dutch/#respond Tue, 01 Apr 2014 09:56:13 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/the-butch-dutch/ Government’s mortgage interest subsidy, besides creating a lot of social costs, benefits almost solely the rich, yet it’s precisely the rich who boldly claim to want to scrap the programme. What’s going on?

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]]> https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/the-butch-dutch/feed/ 0 The Dead Shall Be Raised: The Future of Fannie and Freddie https://en.irefeurope.org/news/article/the-dead-shall-be-raised-the-future-of-fannie-and-freddie/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-dead-shall-be-raised-the-future-of-fannie-and-freddie https://en.irefeurope.org/news/article/the-dead-shall-be-raised-the-future-of-fannie-and-freddie/#respond Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:17:58 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/other-publications/news/the-dead-shall-be-raised-the-future-of-fannie-and-freddie/ The renewed interest in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is premature. They are currently the mainstays of the U.S. housing market--more important now than they were before being placed in a government conservatorship in September 2008. Many observers do not believe the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) can survive the immense losses they will cause taxpayers, but this is far from true.

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