mortgage market and consider a new system that reduces risk in mortgage lending, maintains a limited government role, and … gradually removes the government-sponsored enterprises (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) from the mortgage market"--Provided by …

selling into a strong market. But no mortgage system is equipped to deal with credit problems on the scale of the Great … Depression. As foreclosures quintupled, it became clear that the mortgage system of the 1920s was not up to the task, and … investigate important unanswered questions to provide an unparalleled view of the mortgage loan industry throughout the 1920s and …

view of the mortgage loan industry throughout the 1920s and early '30s. Combining this with the stories of those involved …