Posts Tagged ‘mortgage crisis’

Cut It with the Interest Rate Cuts

Posted by Eric B. on December 18th, 2008 under Economics, Real Estate Market, Uncategorized Tags: , , ,  •  14 Comments

On Tuesday, the Federal Reserve cut the federal-funding rate to between 0% and 0.25% allowing banks to borrow for relatively nothing.  As a result, mortgages are now available at 5.25%.   The same day, Pres Bush stated that the Gov’t is looking at a bond-buying program which will allow Fannie and Freddie to offer fixed-rate loans [...]