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• There is no better way to quickly buoy hard-pressed homeowners than helping them take advantage of the currently record low fixed mortgage rates and significantly reduce their monthly mortgage payments.

  Mark Zandi

  Records, Way, Buoys

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• There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The two giant housing-finance institutions made many mistakes over the decades, some of them real whoppers, but causing house prices to soar and then crater during the past decade weren't among them.

  Mark Zandi

  Real, Mistake, Past

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• I'm a registered Democrat.

  Mark Zandi

  Democrat

  Mark Zandi's speech at the launch of Assessing Trade Agendas in the US Presidential Campaign at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C., piie.com. September 22, 2016.

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• An overheating economy, characterized by accelerating inflation and rising interest rates, is another precondition for recession. This doesn't describe today's economy.

  Mark Zandi

  Rising, Today, Economy

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The FHA's success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation's mortgage finance system. It also demonstrates that although government intervention in the economy during the Great Recession was messy, things would have been a lot messier without it.

  Mark Zandi

  Strong, Government, Play

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• The most important point is, in a time of crisis, there is no way out but for the government to be bold and aggressive.

  Mark Zandi

  Government, Important, Times Of Crisis

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• There is a banking adage that if it's growing like a weed, it's a good chance that it's a weed.

  Mark Zandi

  Weed, Banking, Growing

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• Yes. I don't think it would be appropriate at this point to raise taxes on anyone, certainly not in 2011.

  Mark Zandi

  Thinking, Would Be, Taxes

  "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. August 15, 2010.

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• A home is still the biggest asset that most Americans own.

  Mark Zandi

  Home, Assets, Stills

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• In a normal time, I don't think economic policy makes a large difference one way or another. But in times of crisis it makes all the difference in the world.

  Mark Zandi

  Thinking, Differences, Normal

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• Buying a home wouldn't make much sense if house prices were likely to decline further; no one wants to catch a falling knife.

  Mark Zandi

  Fall, Home, Knives

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• I've done work for both Democrats and Republicans.

  Mark Zandi

  Done, Republican, Democrat

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• The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.

  Mark Zandi

  Japan, Financial, Commodity

  "Mark Zandi: No Global Impact From Japan". Interview with Lori Ann LaRocco, www.cnbc.com. March 17, 2011.

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• Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.

  Mark Zandi

  Running, Home, Past

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• The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holidays for workers would be number one on my list and key to avoiding recession.

  Mark Zandi

  Holiday, Payroll Tax, Numbers

  "A 40 Percent Chance of Economic Doom". Interview with Elizabeth Weingarten, www.slate.com. October 18, 2011.

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• There are different flavors of recession. You can get into some pretty dark scenarios pretty quickly.

  Mark Zandi

  Dark, Different, Flavor

  "A 40 Percent Chance of Economic Doom". Interview with Elizabeth Weingarten, www.slate.com. October 18, 2011.

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• My policy is I will help any policymaker who asks, whether they be a Republican or a Democrat.

  Mark Zandi

  Helping, Republican, Democrat

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• The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal government was even contemplating reducing the principal on some troubled mortgages.

  Mark Zandi

  Party, Government, Tea

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• We need to get rid of the debt ceiling law. It's anachronistic and it's a problem.

  Mark Zandi

  Law, Ceilings, Needs

  "Fiscal cliff: hopes rise for deal as Jim DeMint quits Senate" by Richard Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2012.

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• They called me the sexiest economist in America, and that was years ago, when I had hair and body mass and my teeth were shiny.

  Mark Zandi

  Hair, Years, America

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• Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the financial calamity and Great Recession that followed. Today, by contrast, credit is too tight. Mortgage loans are particularly hard to get, creating a problem for the housing market and the broader economy.

  Mark Zandi

  Creating, Credit, Today

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