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Home » Short Takes: MBA Shows the Love for FHFA’s Mel Watt / Looser Mortgage Credit? Are You Crazy? / The CFPB ‘ePilot’ Moves Closer / The Fear of Running Out of Money / Are You Afraid of Ghosts?
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Short Takes: MBA Shows the Love for FHFA’s Mel Watt / Looser Mortgage Credit? Are You Crazy? / The CFPB ‘ePilot’ Moves Closer / The Fear of Running Out of Money / Are You Afraid of Ghosts?

October 21, 2014
Paul Muolo and Thomas Ressler
After all, didn’t America suffer a housing “depression” because credit was too loose? Some GOP conservatives in Congress live by the edict: those who can own; those who can’t rent…
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