That's why it's called a secondary market.

But, in America s home mortgage market, this is much less common.

But that is precisely why a government managed mortgage market is dangerous.

Credit risk in the mortgage market is being assumed by the government, and market risk by the Fed.

Standard Poor s analyst Juan Pablo de Mollein points out that Mexico does not have a liquid secondary market where mortgage securities can be traded to buyers who are far removed from the original issuer.

There was a huge moral hazard courtesy of the government in the mortgage market.

That time is over, as the breakdown of the American mortgage securitization market has shown.

It may make sense for central banks (or Fannie Mae, America s major government sponsored mortgage company) to buy mortgage backed securities in order to help provide market liquidity.

Debtor country governments have also bought back their debt on the secondary market.

Poor s analyst Juan Pablo de Mollein points out that Mexico does not have a liquid secondary market where mortgage securities can be traded to buyers who are far removed from the original issuer. That tends to make buyers more cautious.

In Mexico, the market for new low and middle income housing has grown rapidly, thanks to the creation of a market for residential mortgage securities in 2003.

Because banks would need to accept higher risk, a secondary market for mortgages is necessary.

One sure way to reduce the savings rate in China would be to develop an American style mortgage market there.

Mortgage backed security.

Remember, the secondary market, the stock market, most of that is between two people who are unrelated to the company, trading the shares of stock.

After the sub prime mortgage crisis, politicians alleged that the market was short sighted and irrational, and rushed to propose new regulations.

Moreover, the US housing market appears to be stabilizing....Overall, the US mortgage market has remained resilient, although the sub prime segment has deteriorated a bit more rapidly than had been expected.

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You mean the mortgage?

Oh yes. The mortgage.

A mortgage on Tara.

Some, observing the crash of the sub prime mortgage market, say, Don t worry, it is only a problem in the real estate sector.

An interest rate rise might take the heat out of the mortgage market, but it will also chill the rest of the economy.

This brings us back to the US Treasury s plan to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to unclog the sub prime mortgage market.

And that's 70 percent of the United States stock market, 70 percent of the operating system formerly known as your pension, your mortgage.

The staff saw the relaxation of lending standards in the US mortgage market, but noted that borrowers at risk of significant mortgage payment increases remained a small minority, concentrated mostly among higher income households that were aware of the attendant risks.

It is perplexing because in conventional analyses of which activities should be in the public domain, running the national mortgage market is never mentioned.

Then we'll get the mortgage.

Policy enhancements have been made to mortgage portability, second homes and mortgage qualification for self employed borrowers.

An audit would also reveal more details about financial market interventions like those in 2008, when the Fed purchased mortgage securities from Bear Stearns and AIG.

However, beyond the mortgage market, other huge risks are lurking, especially in the US financial system credit cards, car loans, and presumably a few other things.

In parallel, the ECB has announced an outright monetary transactions (OMT) program to purchase bonds already trading on the secondary market.

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Think Enron, Madoff, the mortgage crisis.

... with a husband, mortgage and children.

Secondary

In both cases, the discounts largely reflect the market value of the debt at the time of negotiation, as indicated by the discount prevailing in the secondary market for such debt.

So its failure to press the United States to redress the mortgage market vulnerabilities that precipitated the current financial crisis indicates that much remains to be done.

A real estate market gradually developed but the establishment of mortgage banks was at an initial stage and housing construction on a commercial scale was still rare.

In the advanced countries, the market for first time purchases of mass market goods like cars, refrigerators, and televisions is saturated, while the secondary market for used and reconditioned goods has become much less dynamic, undermining employment in repairs and renovations.

A major concern of the German Constitutional Court is the similarity between the ESM s Secondary Market Support Facility (SMSF) and the ECB s OMT program, both of which imply the purchase of government bonds in secondary markets.

Indeed, with its recent decision to pursue QE3, the Fed is focusing once again on the mortgage backed securities market but, given that the market is much healthier now, it is unclear how much good this will do.

Mortgage debts, too, must be written down.

And the market is prone to temporary fits of shared enthusiasm for emerging market debt, for Internet stocks, for residential mortgage backed securities, for Greek government debt. Traders need not wait to see when or whether the profits materialize.

MUNICH Once upon a time, stocks were risky and collateralized securities were safe. That time is over, as the breakdown of the American mortgage securitization market has shown.