We used to regularly cover the monthly Economic and Housing Market Outlook from Freddie Mac's Office of the Chief Economist, but sometime last summer they stopped doing the usually interesting narrative that accompanied the numbers so we no longer paid a lot of attention to the spreadsheet that remained...
Freddie Mac's monthly Economic Outlook for June was released last week. In what has become a mantra, the corporations Office of the Chief Economist, quoting Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke's recent remarks, is predicting an "orderly and moderate cooling of the housing sector." In the face of a lot...
Freddie Mac's message might be, "Be A Patriot, Buy A House" - Or at least that seems to be the underlying message of Freddie Mac's July Economic Outlook Report. The monthly report, prepared by the Office of the Chief Economist, states that it is housing that is indeed providing substantial impetus to...
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FREDDIE ISSUES JUNE ECONOMIC PROGNOSTICATION If you want to add a headache to your day's aggravation, you are invited to read the latest Economic Outlook report issued late Wednesday by Freddie Mac's Office of the Chief Economist. It isn't their fault, nobody seems to understand what is going on nationally...
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Freddie Mac's Weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey reported that mortgage rates were down for the most part for the week ending May 5, 2005. This is the fifth week in a row that Freddie has recorded a decline in the two popular fixed rate products and the 5/1 ARM . The 1-year ARM was up a single basis...
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Freddie Mac's Office of the Chief Economist has issued its monthly Economic & Housing Outlook report for the month of March. Much of the report is given to a discussion of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's semi-annual report to Congress in which he noted the "conundrum" of the rising federal...
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