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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: FHA Swamped By Defaults.

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According to Ligon, the only way the FHA can avoid a bailout is to reduce its market share by lowering maximum loan limits to $325,000 over the next four years, raise credit requirements for borrowers, and institute “burden sharing” with loan originators by reducing insurance coverage from the current 100 percent to 50 percent by 2016.

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FOMC Minutes and Economic Projections: Dissent in Both Directions

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Participants also described their views regarding the appropriate path of the Federal Reserves balance sheet. Participants anticipated a gradual decline in the unemployment rate over the forecast period; a large majority projected that the unemployment rate would not reach their estimates of its longer-run level before 2016.