Monday, October 18, 2010

The Government's Housing Subsidies Are Screwing Families And Homeowners, Says Peter Schiff

In this video:
Schiff believes that the government should exit the housing market completely and let prices fall to a natural level. In other words, says Schiff, the government should stop subsidizing mortgage rates with quantitative easing, stop using taxpayer-funded losses at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to lubricate the mortgage market, and stop enacting things like the homebuyer tax credit to encourage people to buy houses
And this
Artificially pumping up house prices is not doing underwater homeowners any favors, Peter Schiff says. The problem is that, thanks to the crazy mortgages of the bubble years, today's homeowners were often able to buy houses they can't afford. And now these houses are millstones around their owners' necks.
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