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2. Federal Reserve responses to the subprime crisis - Wikipedia

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   Federal Reserve Holdings of Treasury and Mortgage-Backed Securities. The Fed can electronically create money and use it to lend against the collateral of various types, such as agency mortgage-backed securities or asset-backed commercial paper. This is effectively "printing money" and increases the money supply, which under normal economic ...

3. Mortgage-backed security - Wikipedia

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   A mortgage-backed security (MBS) is a type of asset-backed security (an "instrument") which is secured by a mortgage or collection of mortgages. The mortgages are aggregated and sold to a group of individuals (a government agency or investment bank) that securitizes, or packages, the loans together into a security that investors can buy.

4. What are mortgage-backed securities? - AOL

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   The Federal Reserve can buy and sell mortgage-backed securities as instructed by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). These actions can stimulate the economy or slow it, helping the Fed to ...

5. Subprime mortgage crisis - Wikipedia

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   Private bond issuance of residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities, and CDOs peaked in 2006 at close to $2 trillion...In 2009, private issuance was less than $150 billion, and almost all of it was asset-backed issuance supported by the Federal Reserve's TALF program to aid credit card, auto and small ...

6. Opinion - The Fed’s ‘temporary’ mortgage-backed security ...

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   It looks like the Fed is stuck with very large, losing “temporary” mortgage-backed securities investments for a long time to come. Opinion - The Fed’s ‘temporary’ mortgage-backed ...

7. Government intervention during the subprime mortgage crisis

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   A bridge bank, IndyMac Federal Bank FSB, was established under the control of the FDIC. [6] The GSEs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were both placed in conservatorship in September 2008. [7] The two GSEs guaranteed or held mortgage-backed securities (MBS), mortgages, and other debt with a notional value of more than $5 trillion. [8]