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February 10, 2012

Obama's Blow to the Housing Market

Charlie Gasparino, New York Post

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It’s hard to imagine a less-deserving group of victims: people who gambled during the housing bubble by purchasing homes with borrowed money that they knew or should have known they couldn’t afford, but who are now able to stay in the homes they should have never bought because of what amounts to paperwork errors on the part of the nation’s big banks. . .

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TAGGED: Foreclosures, mortgage finance, President Barack Obama, housing, charlie gasparino

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