The Senate is poised to pass a foolish mortgage bailout for certain borrowers. Robert Samuelson explains in the Washington Post why a similar House proposal by Barney Frank (D-Mass.) is a “bad idea” that could “perversely delay the housing recovery” if it enacted. The bailout proposal has “two glaring problems: one moral, the other economic.” And it reserves the “privilege” of a bailout “for an estimated 1 million to 2 million homeowners who are the weakest and most careless borrowers,” while excluding responsible “people who made larger downpayments.” The American public opposes mortgage bailouts in public opinion polls, but that doesn’t stop politicians from pandering to whiny, irresponsible borrowers who claim it’s hard to pay their bills, who are invariably portrayed sympathetically by bleeding-heart journalists at places like ABC News.
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Mortgage Bailout: “Bad Idea” That Could Delay Economic Recovery
by Hans Bader
April 02, 2008 @ 9:52 am
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[...] borrowing that have “proven notoriously inefficient.” We earlier criticized Congressional mortgage bailout proposals and subsidies to left-wing housing groups.  The American public opposes mortgage bailouts. [...]
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[...] bill in its current form, because they want to make the bill much worse, by adding costly and economically-destructive mortgage bailouts, even though most citizens oppose mortgage bailouts. Left-wing lobbying groups stand to make a [...]
[...] his interview with The Economist, Congressman Barney Frank undermines the case for his much-criticized mortgage bailout bill. He admits that such bailouts create serious “moral hazard†problems, [...]
[...] his interview with The Economist, Congressman Barney Frank undermines the case for his much-criticized mortgage bailout bill. He admits that such bailouts create serious “moral hazard†problems, [...]
[...] To be fair–you know, like objective and shit–our system isn’t all that much better: Like, sure, private citizens can sell whatever they’d like, set the price, sit back and watch the dollars flow in–but when stuff goes all wrong, there’s not much that the government can do about it. Still, sometimes they try. And then the duders who seem most interested in preserving the system like to get all worked up about what they no doubt see as unwanted encroachment. [...]
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