America’s huge mortgage market is slowly dying
IN AMERICA’S foundation myths, the humble mortgage rarely features. There are no stirring ballads about the heroism of 30-year rates or credit-scoring. Yet mortgages have fuelled the American dream, which centres on home ownership, ever since the federal government began subsidising property loans a century ago. Now that fuel is running low.
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