Comments on: The Re-REMIC limit http://blogs.reuters.com/commentaries/2009/09/04/the-re-remic-limit/ Now raising intellectual capital Thu, 23 May 2013 04:02:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: John McLeod http://blogs.reuters.com/commentaries/2009/09/04/the-re-remic-limit/comment-page-1/#comment-3510 John McLeod Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:11:36 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/commentaries/?p=3515#comment-3510 SIFMA blessed these things for RMBS on Jan 7th of this year, but it was in precisely the next 7 day period that the Fed reported its first purchases of MBS on their own account. It's now up to a third of their balance sheet stuffed with residential Re-Remics and other mortgages, $0.625 trillion of it! (great chart here) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125193069297181241.html Somehow I don't see an equivalent player stepping to the plate over commercial RE finance. SIFMA blessed these things for RMBS on Jan 7th of this year, but it was in precisely the next 7 day period that the Fed reported its first purchases of MBS on their own account. It’s now up to a third of their balance sheet stuffed with residential Re-Remics and other mortgages, $0.625 trillion of it! (great chart here)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12519306 9297181241.html

Somehow I don’t see an equivalent player stepping to the plate over commercial RE finance.

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