The U.S. federal government is slowly extracting itself from the MBS market for home loans, closing out several emergency measures put into place in the throes of distress last year to prevent a collapse of mortgage finance.
According to a recent WSJ online article, The Federal Reserve’s $1.25 trillion program to purchase mortgage-backed securities, considered the most critical support, will draw to a close in the first quarter of 2010. Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae will then be without a government buyer of last resort for their home loans for the first time since the mid-1990s and will have to rely solely on private investors.
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