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Thursday, December 6, 2007

Mortgage Freeze Agreed to by Bush, Lenders


President Bush will announce this afternoon an agreement with major mortgage firms to freeze interest rates for five years for financially troubled homeowners — a plan advocates say will help forestall a major foreclosure crisis but some conservatives say amounts to a bailout of people who made bad financial decisions. (Washington Post, Thursday)

Sounds like a price control.

FEE Timely Classic
What Price Control Really Means by Lawrence W. Reed