Nice article. It's good to know how he think about the problem. Do you have any information on where to get the housing affordability data for free? How he get"35-to-1 leverage at almost every level in both private and public sectors"? Is that a free data? Thanks.
Nice article. It's good to know how he think about the problem. Do you have any information on where to get the housing affordability data for free? How he get"35-to-1 leverage at almost every level i ...
小亥 发表于 2009-8-26 12:46
Sorry, I have no idea where to get the data that he mentioned
Nice article. It's good to know how he think about the problem. Do you have any information on where to get the housing affordability data for free? How he get"35-to-1 leverage at almost every level i ...
小亥 发表于 2009-8-26 12:46
I believe this refers to the bank's liabilities/equity ratio (or assets/capital ratio), which is around 30-35:1 in the most banks. Furthermore, the two big semi-government agencies: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (FNM & FRE) has the leverage ratio as high as 55:1. I do not have the data at hand, but you can find easily from Fed.'s website.