We have reviewed the Fed’s most unusual policy paper on housing, sent yesterday to Congress over Ben Bernanke’s signature. In it, the Fed notes several options — REO- to-rental and mega-HARP most important among them. Implicit here is a critique of the FHFA and administration, but nowhere does the Fed focus on its own role in the mortgage freeze the paper laments at length.
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