The housing market’s problems aren’t going away, but policy makers and industry officials appear to be running away from them, mortgage-bond pioneer Lewis Ranieri told an audience of financial industry executives on Monday. Ranieri, considered by many to be the godfather of the U.S. housing-finance market for his role developing the mortgage-backed security, didn’t pull any punches in an address to the North Carolina Bankers Association in Raleigh. The industry and policymakers are engaged in “self-interested bickering” over who will bear the cost of needed overhauls while the housing market is rotting, he said.
Ranieri: Housing could sink economy
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