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Why the Foreclosure Crisis is Getting Worse (Original Post) Fire Walk With Me Nov 2012 OP
I had to click through several sites to get to the artcle here: hedda_foil Nov 2012 #1
If signing let's-send-jobs-to-foreign-countries "free-trade" agreements help, there will be relief AnotherMcIntosh Nov 2012 #2
From all I've heard, the TPP is a horrible thing not even being brought up for discussion Fire Walk With Me Nov 2012 #3

hedda_foil

(16,502 posts)
1. I had to click through several sites to get to the artcle here:
Sun Nov 25, 2012, 12:25 PM
Nov 2012

It's from US News.

http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/my-money/2012/10/22/worried-about-your-home-why-the-foreclosure-crisis-is-getting-worse




Although the housing market is showing signs of recovery, other indicators show the foreclosure crisis is getting worse. In a September interview with U.S. News, Austan Goolsbee, the former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, said, "I think there's a lot wrong in the housing market. If Fannie and Freddie would start enabling people to rent out the vacant homes, that would also help."

Some foreclosure facts:

The mortgage loans which are currently under the foreclosure process, is amounting to almost $45 billion (that is mainly in terms with negative equity)

More than almost 12 million homeowners are currently considered to be underwater, who are still making payments

There are more than 1.5 million of the homeowners, who are at least 50 years or even older and may have lost the home to foreclosure, since the year 2007, when the mortgage crisis actually began.



 

AnotherMcIntosh

(11,064 posts)
2. If signing let's-send-jobs-to-foreign-countries "free-trade" agreements help, there will be relief
Sun Nov 25, 2012, 12:42 PM
Nov 2012

for the mortgage crisis after President Obama has finished his tour in the Far East and signs the TPP.

 

Fire Walk With Me

(38,893 posts)
3. From all I've heard, the TPP is a horrible thing not even being brought up for discussion
Sun Nov 25, 2012, 07:02 PM
Nov 2012

amongst the peoples of the nations involved due to its hidden evils.

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