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That is a question want to answer for them for the economic problems just keep coming no single person could provide a solution, not even the president. Foreclosures are on the rise (even with passed regulation into the prevention of such an event happening, may be due to the too long deliberations in congress??), companies have gone bust, lay-off’s are on the rise (sending more to claim unemployment benefits from the government) and many others. The sinking of prices in the housing sector had affected too many markets globally (due to the fact that many foreign investors had stakes in these housing projects) that the ripples just keep getting more in frequency as time progresses instead of decreasing. With current house prices at their lowest, there seems little hope for the market to recover as fast as everyone wants it to. The impact on the financial market has been so substantial that many companies had to resort to laying-off people or face filing bankruptcy.

Freddie Mac has forged an agreement with three major mortgage lenders which would enable funding for large home loans or those that reach almost half a million dollars. Freddie and Fannie Mae are two of the government-backed lenders who have been doing damage control after billions of dollars of losses in the sub-prime lending financial crisis they have been forced to deal with. The deal seems to be forged with Mac and those big-time lenders with no news yet from the avenue of Mae whether they would be following suit. This paves the way for large homes that would otherwise have to be foreclosed allowing more funding to alleviate and even prevent it from happening. This is one more event in the long period of recovery that would be needed to amend the broken housing market which is hoped to start rebounding this 2009.

The move shows the current status of the formerly booming housing market in the purely vacation area that is Palm Beach. The area has a current foreclosure rate of around 70% and people are losing their houses due to the bad credit loans problems that is currently rocking the nation. The Assistance center is possible with the participation of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development and the State in efforts to avoid the foreclosure of their homes as much as possible. The assistance center will be helping homeowners to re-negotiate their mortgage payments, repair their damaged credit standings and even pay the amount of $ 10,000 to the people behind their mortgages to defer some of the unpaid debts they owe.

Bad Idea, many financial analysts and politicians say. Why, the crisis in the housing market happened because they let it and we should help pay for it. I don’t think so, is the stand of GOD candidate McCain. Why should the rest of America pay for the mistakes of people, some of whom are almost considered to own the housing business? They’ve been earning big for a long long time and it’s about time they shell out some money from their own pockets. This should be a lesson for people who seek to earn money and not abide by the rules of the game. Let them figure it out by themselves; they’re old enough to stand up for the messes they’ve made.

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Underwriters are the risk analyses arms of financial institutions and they are being blamed for the current crisis for allowing people with less than favorable financial standing to continue getting houses without enough money to pay for them. The mentality that the economy is rock solid and can handle just about anything is a very false belief. The economy of countries is inter-dependent and instability in one ripples thought the whole system. The problem happened when the ripple hit the housing market and they couldn’t recover due to billions of dollars in bad loans they were not able to collect. The effect, many homeless, many homes without homeowners, new homes with nobody buying and it goes on and on and on. Hopefully the market will self-heal in the near future so people can go on back to living their lives not speculating and just to go on living.

The movements seen in housing markets are found to be coming more from foreigners buying homes for their vacation purposes globally. The problems in the US housing market have effects that have traveled around the world many times over and economies are paying the price. The financial market has been so shaken up that businesses are reeling in the after effects. Fewer houses sold - fewer jobs to build them, more jobless people - less home buyers and the effects just keep piling up. Good thing the European and Asian Markets are faring better that their American counterparts. The Euro has been climbing steadily against the dollar which has dipped time and time again as the government tries to get a handle on the problem. The US government has its hands full with internal and external issues they have to deal with and it may be too much even for them.

The statistics tell it all, the unemployment rate has dipped another 5% which translates to hundreds of thousand people without jobs. In the construction business which is directly linked to the housing market lost 49,000 jobs as construction of new houses were put on hold to allow the disposal of already completed ones. The housing market is trying to fix the problem they started and the construction industry is a resilient one (for there never seems to be enough structures around) when houses stop being built we move on (to gas stations and truck stops and other projects). The financial woes have many people sitting on the edge of their pants and we hope the industry recovers faster than predictions.

Charles Morrison is a respected economic historian and banker who has been accredited by many to have predicted the economic crash we are all facing. Being a banker who designs investments and hedge fund packages, which is packaged for credit instruments and he saw all this coming last spring 2007. He tried to tell people that a “Mother of all Crashes” was coming yet nobody listened and politicians continued to say the economy was doing great with the proper mix of inflation, growth and employment. He saw the immense volumes that were being traded on Wall Street which were too good to be true and went ton by saying this can’t all be true. He was in the industry and he knew what he was talking about yet still nobody listened. The crunch came when too much volume was traded with no sure way of accounting the validity and effectivity of the economy. Then it all came tumbling down taking all of us in the process.