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Solution: increase "up to eleven" the regulatory capital requirements for holding mortgage loans in a bank's books.

One of the features of housing bubbles is overvaluation of homes as mortgage collateral. Normally it is assumed that loan-to-value doesn't exceed 80%. With an inflated value, a loan-to-value of 120% (where the mortgage covers even legal, administrative, tax and even physical customization costs of the purchase) can be turned into an 80% "book" loan to value. So, jack up the regulatory capital requirements by 75%.

Economics is politics by other means

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Apr 29th, 2011 at 02:23:36 PM EST
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An additional thing he's just done is to limit the variable-rate part of a mortgage to 1/3 of the value, where variable-rate includes mortgages in foreign currency.
by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Sun May 1st, 2011 at 02:36:32 PM EST
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