The Mortgage Kit: Select the Right Loan, Lock in the Lowest Rate, Negotiate the Best Terms
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Palin: “John McCain has been the consummate MAVERICK in the Senate “
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Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton recognized the urgency and seriousness of the economic problems months ago – and proposed solutions – while McCain failed to recognize the situation and did nothing.
www.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/us/politics/26mortgage.html
McCain Rejects Broad U.S. Aid on Mortgages
Published: March 26, 2008
SANTA ANA, Calif. — Drawing a sharp distinction between himself and the two Democratic presidential candidates, Senator John McCain of Arizona warned Tuesday against vigorous government action to solve the deepening mortgage crisis and the market turmoil it has caused, saying that “it is not the duty of government to bail out and reward those who act irresponsibly, whether they are big banks or small borrowers.”
Mr. McCain’s comments came a day after Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York called for direct federal intervention to help affected homeowners, including a billion fund for states and communities to assist those at risk of foreclosure. Mrs. Clinton’s Democratic opponent, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, has similarly called for greater federal involvement, including creation of a billion relief package to prevent foreclosures.
As the foreclosure crisis has rippled across the economy, it has thrust itself to the forefront of the presidential race, with Democrats seizing on the issue in urging forceful government steps to alleviate the crisis. Mr. McCain’s remarks Tuesday, to a group of Hispanic businessmen here, signaled a sharpening divide between the two parties’ candidates, with the senator warning against quick, costly government fixes to a crises rooted in the private sector.
. . . Mr. McCain appeared to be trying to confront questions about his dexterity in dealing with the economy, a subject that he has admitted is not his strongest suit. But his remarks drew a quick, pointed rebuke from Mrs. Clinton, who criticized Mr. McCain’s hands-off, market-oriented approach, saying it would lead to “a downward spiral that would cause tremendous economic pain and loss” for Americans.
“It sounds remarkably like Herbert Hoover, and I don’t think that’s good economic policy,” Mrs. Clinton told reporters in Greensburg, Pa. “The government has a number of tools at its disposal. I think that inaction has contributed to the problems we face today, and I believe further inaction would exacerbate those problems.”
. . . Mr. Obama’s plan emphasizes making it easier to convert subprime loans to fixed-rate, 30-year loans, while requiring that borrowers have access to better data on loan costs and requiring greater scrutiny of lenders. On Tuesday, he said, “It’s deeply troubling that John McCain is suggesting that the best way to address the housing crisis is to sit back and watch it happen.”
. . . Overall, the approach Mr. McCain suggested is even more cautious about federal intervention than that of President Bush. The Bush administration is looking to lower down payment requirements, at least temporarily. Mr. McCain said that he opposed reducing the down payment required for mortgages backed by the Federal Housing Administration, a step meant to revitalize slumping housing sales.
The housing crisis has emerged as a dominant topic in the campaign amid a steady drumbeat of worrisome economic data. A survey released Tuesday showed consumer expectations for the future at their lowest levels in more than 30 years, and polls show the economy has increasingly overshadowed issues like the Iraq war.
Mr. McCain spoke at some length about the problems caused by lenders and by Wall Street, which bundled mortgages into securities that were chopped into pieces and resold to investors in the United States and abroad. But he did not call for any kind of legislative or regulatory measures to fix those problems, other than to say that the government should eliminate obstacles to the ability of financial institutions to raise more capital.
Mr. McCain said he favored government intervention only when standing by would produce “catastrophic effects” to the economy.
www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/09/18/amid_turmo…
Amid turmoil, McCain turns to regulation
By Michael Kranish and Farah Stockman
Globe Staff / September 18, 2008
Responding to the turmoil on Wall Street, John McCain said flatly yesterday: "We need strong and effective regulation." But throughout his two-decade Senate career, McCain has cast himself as an outspoken critic of government intervention in the markets, saying that he is "fundamentally a deregulator."
After saying Tuesday that he opposed any more government bailouts, he said yesterday that the government was "forced" to loan billion to rescue insurance giant AIG because so many of its customers were affected. After saying Monday that the "fundamentals of the economy are strong," he seemed to backtrack by saying he was talking about the spirit of workers, not the rising rate of unemployment or the plunging stock market.
"After all the years of tearing down the regulations that govern financial institutions, it rings hollow to claim that he will build them back up," said Elizabeth Warren, professor of bankruptcy law at Harvard Law School. "This economy is the direct consequence of the deregulation that John McCain fought for day after day, year after year, since the mid-1980s."
William K. Black said yesterday that he does not believe McCain ever shed his anti-regulatory views. "He still has ideological blinders on," said Black, who later co-wrote a government report on the lessons learned from theKeating scandal. "He took no meaningful leadership role to try to deal with the recurring problems, and that is why the current crisis not only recurred but has intensified to the point where they have severely damaged the global economy," said Black, now an associate professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s law school.
Another analyst said that McCain has waited too long to speak out on stabilizing the US economy. "He has been very slow to recognize the severity," said Desmond Lachman, former managing director and chief emerging market economic strategist at Salomon Smith Barney. "I think it has only been the last two days that it has finally registered that this is a serious problem," said Lachman, who is now a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.
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October 23, 2008
"I call on the administration to act now and buy up these mortgages and keep people in their homes," McCain said, then singled out Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. "And why is the secretary of the Treasury not ordering them to do that?"
