Bernanke Call for Mortgage Forgiveness Puts Pressure on Paulson

Story date: 2008-03-05 05:29:00
Added on: 2008-03-05 08:01:19

Bloomberg - ... more effective means of avoiding delinquency and foreclosure'' than renegotiating interest rates. Bernanke also said ``the current ... billion of bonds at First Pacific Advisors LLC. ``I'm going to demand higher and higher rates'' to buy mortgage ...


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