Franklin Raines

(5 votes)   We're just sort of like the Eveready bunny. And we just keep going and we expect that to continue because of the strength of that housing market.

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(3 votes)   The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid.

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(2 votes)   And so Fannie Mae produces very strong results for investors in - when interest rates are high and when interest rates are low, in recession and during booms.

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(2 votes)   And so the danger for the housing industry is if we see interest rates rise.

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(2 votes)   We are shrinking the size of the federal government as a percent of our economy from over 21 percent of the economy to 19 percent of the economy. At the same time, we're growing the private economy.

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(2 votes)   Well, I think the best form would be to put money directly in the pockets of consumers.

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(4 votes)   I think if you go beyond a year - if this continues into the system in the out years, I think there is a risk and that - that we could have a negative reaction in the bond market and that will offset the good that was attempted to be done.

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(4 votes)   If there's a severe recession, the automatic stabilizers will come into effect, and we will still try to reduce the structural deficit, but we will not try to keep cutting the budget so that we keep worsening a severe recession.

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(3 votes)   Right now we think that rates will stay low, that you'll be able to get a mortgage below seven percent and that's kicked off a refinance boom that's going to put more money in the pockets of consumers.

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(3 votes)   Well, we're just now seeing the reductions in mortgage rates. The mortgage rates are based on the ten-year rate and the Fed controls the overnight or the shorter rates.

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(2 votes)   And so we have to be careful with looking at additional stimulus that we don't provoke an increase in the bond rate and then offset a lot of the stimulus we've already got.

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(2 votes)   So from the housing standpoint, steady as you go, I think, would be the best medicine.

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(2 votes)   That is - the reason for that is that home prices are only going to go up. Now, they've never gone down nationwide in our - since we've been keeping track of this.

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(2 votes)   They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations of inflation. So if the average investor believes that there is inflation coming, they'll move that rate up.

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(2 votes)   Well, I think as long as people are talking about stimulus, I think the Fed will be thinking about cutting rates because monetary policy is the better way to go because you can turn it on and turn it off.

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