There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The two giant housing-finance institutions made many mistakes over the decades, some of them real whoppers, but causing house prices to soar and then crater during the past decade weren't among them.
Mark ZandiThe principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.
Mark ZandiThere is no better way to quickly buoy hard-pressed homeowners than helping them take advantage of the currently record low fixed mortgage rates and significantly reduce their monthly mortgage payments.
Mark ZandiThey called me the sexiest economist in America, and that was years ago, when I had hair and body mass and my teeth were shiny.
Mark Zandi