Linkage: Mortgage Rates Artificially Low
Kudos to Matt Scully at Bloomberg for a great piece on the Fed’s large holdings of mortgage bonds, which keeps rates artificially low. Lots of important reading below, but if you only have time for one, make it that one. It’s the first link.
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