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Re:The Fed now owns nearly 1/3 of all U.S. mortgages by RestlessMind on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @07:17PM (#24427075)
> and there isn't much room, unless we think negative yield mortgages are possible

Negative mortgage rates are of course possible - they happened in Denmark, for example: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/12/danish-bank-is-offering-10-y...

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Re:The Fed now owns nearly 1/3 of all U.S. mortgages by JMTQp8lwXL on Thursday September 10, 2020 @12:53AM (#24428997)
To clarify, negative after fees. The Danish mortgages are not negative after fees. The question is, could we cross that line? Then the bank wouldn't be making any money on the loan.
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