Clients have asked that we assess the prospects for GSE activities as the year-end, 2012 deadline for unlimited Treasury support approaches. In our view, the withdrawal of the certain, all-encompassing safety net will unsettle mortgage markets, but likely not disrupt them irreparably absent a crisis that calls the USG’s bluff. And, even then, Treasury and the FRB have some cards up their sleeve.

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