That's how loans worked before the mortgage backed security industry really got developed. Now let's do the example with a mortgage backed security. Now there's still me.

The dubious mortgage securities are so called mortgage backed securities.

You call them stock, or stock options, derivatives, mortgage backed securities.

The prices of traded mortgage backed securities have followed house prices down.

Mortgage banks kept some claims on their books, but sold most of them to investment banks as mortgage backed securities.

Mortgage backed securities were urged onto investors for whom they were too risky.

It involved a complex synthetic security that was derived from existing mortgage backed securities by cloning them into imaginary units that mimicked the originals.

In Europe, particularly Germany, a mortgage backed security ( Pfandbrief ) is an ultra safe asset, as normally banks finance no more than 60 of a house s value.

That detail is not that important in understanding what a mortgage backed security is, but that will have to wait until the next presentation. See you soon.

As a result, mortgage brokers maximize their income by generating larger volumes of mortgages, as do the banks that package these loans into mortgage backed securities (MBS s).

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It may make sense for central banks (or Fannie Mae, America s major government sponsored mortgage company) to buy mortgage backed securities in order to help provide market liquidity.

Mortgage banks kept some claims on their books, but sold most of them to investment banks as mortgage backed securities. The investment banks blended these securities into asset backed securities and collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) and sold them on to financial institutions throughout the world.

The US Federal Reserve, for example, is currently purchasing assets (many of them mortgage backed) worth 85 billion each month.

It involved a complex synthetic security that was derived from existing mortgage backed securities by cloning them into imaginary units that mimicked the originals. This synthetic collateralized debt obligation (CDO) did not finance the ownership of any additional homes or allocate capital more efficiently it merely swelled the volume of mortgage backed securities that lost value when the housing bubble burst.

The mortgage backed securities that US banks succeeded in selling to the world are not comparable to European assets with similar names.

That gave the Fed the ability in 2010 to begin its massive monthly purchases of long term bonds and mortgage backed securities.

This creates an incentive to default, which increases foreclosures and lowers the value of the mortgage backed securities on financial firms books.

Asymmetric information between sellers and buyers of financial products can easily leave buyers vulnerable to abuse, as we saw with mortgage backed securities.

When home prices stop rising, recent homebuyers may lose the enthusiasm to continue paying their mortgages and investors lose faith in mortgage backed securities.

In Europe, particularly Germany, a mortgage backed security ( Pfandbrief ) is an ultra safe asset, as normally banks finance no more than 60 of a house s value. By contrast, such US securities are like a lottery ticket.

Their ill conceived interventions notably the US backed mortgage underwriters Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as well as the Community Reinvestment Act distorted market incentives.

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But lower short term interest rates have led to higher medium term interest rates, which are more relevant for the mortgage market, perhaps because of increasing worries about inflationary pressures. It may make sense for central banks (or Fannie Mae, America s major government sponsored mortgage company) to buy mortgage backed securities in order to help provide market liquidity.

In the current crisis, even the private rating agencies dramatically underestimated the risks involved, which helped lure international financial investors into purchasing mortgage backed securities at exaggerated prices.

That these collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs, or bonds backed by a pool of mortgages) found a ready market, both in the US and abroad, reflects failure on several fronts.

Certainly the US Congress was clueless its members were still busy lobbying for the government backed housing mortgage agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, thereby digging the hole deeper.

The mortgage broker connects the family to a lender who gives them a mortgage.

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And imagine that I paid you 5 million dollars to view mortgage back security as a good product.

But that means that when intervention comes to an end, interest rates will rise and any holder of mortgage backed bonds would experience a capital loss potentially a large one.

We then call on credit rating agencies to certify that the less risky of these mortgage backed securities are safe enough for pension funds and insurance companies to invest in.

The impetus for a big subprime market came from within the private sector innovation by giant mortgage lenders like Countrywide, Ameriquest, and many others, backed by the big investment banks.

In the US, the penalties have been dominated by fines for sales of misleadingly marketed mortgage backed securities, often to the two government supported entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

We then call on credit rating agencies to certify that the less risky of these mortgage backed securities are safe enough for pension funds and insurance companies to invest in.

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Some distressed banks clearly possess large quantities of mortgage backed securities, and are holding onto them in the hope that their prices will rise in the future, saving them from failure.

But that means that when intervention comes to an end, interest rates will rise nbsp and any holder of mortgage backed bonds would experience a capital loss potentially a large one.

So, just like always, the mortgage broker connects the family with the lender and the mortgage