Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Home mortgage crisis - history note

Hey, folks, I picked up this interesting tidbit from the GovDoc listserv yesterday:

"Just in case you are starting to get reference questions on the Home
Owners' Loan Corporation (a New Deal program that refinanced homes to
prevent foreclosure), we have posted their annual reports on FRASER. They
were a part of the Federal Home Loan Banks, and so their annual reports
are contained within the FHLB annual reports.
Best regards,
Katrina
Katrina Stierholz
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis"

FRASER is the Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research and can be accessed by the public at http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/. The annual reports Katrina refers to are listed first thing (for now) in the What's New section.

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