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Old 04-01-2008, 04:48 AM   #1
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Default Paulson: Viva the correction

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we should not lose sight of the fact that this downturn was precipitated by unsustainable home price appreciation which was particularly pronounced in a relatively few regions. A correction was inevitable and the sooner we work through it, with a minimum of disorder, the sooner we will see home values stabilize, more buyers return to the housing market, and housing will again contribute to economic growth. Having stability in housing markets will in turn contribute to better conditions in credit markets for mortgage-backed securities.

Data releases every month create headlines about declining housing sales, starts and prices. Yet, declines are exactly what we should expect during a correction. ...

we do not have a national housing market; housing markets are regional –and there is considerable variation in adjustment, with prices changing the most in areas that had the greatest overbuilding.

Amid this correction, there are many calls to "do something about housing." When people say this, they are urging any number of possible things – minimize foreclosures, make affordable mortgages more available, improve the secondary market and liquidity for mortgages, improve the mortgage origination process, prosecute fraud, reduce the inventory of homes for sale, or help communities hardest hit by foreclosures.

The 'to do' list tends to get conflated. We must sort through each of these shared and desired outcomes, carefully choosing policies that minimize the impact of – but do not slow – the housing correction."
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