Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation mortgage-backed security
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Examples
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As long as the MBS is a qualified REMIC, no income tax will be charged to the MBS.
Ellen Brown: Time to Break Up the Too-Big-to-Fail Banks? Ellen Brown 2010
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As long as the MBS is a qualified REMIC, no income tax will be charged to the MBS.
Ellen Brown: Time to Break Up the Too-Big-to-Fail Banks? Ellen Brown 2010
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The relatively worse performance of private-label MBS-financed mortgages was consistent across origination years and, within each year, across nearly all groups of loans with similar LTV ratios and FICO scores.
David Fiderer: The Real Reason Fannie and Freddie Lost So Much Money David Fiderer 2011
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Probably some incremental increase in MBS purchases and perhaps some Treasury purchases.
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The relatively worse performance of private-label MBS-financed mortgages was consistent across origination years and, within each year, across nearly all groups of loans with similar LTV ratios and FICO scores.
David Fiderer: The Real Reason Fannie and Freddie Lost So Much Money David Fiderer 2011
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Investment in MBS seemed to be part of a culture of excessive risk taking that had overtaken banks (see Raghuram G. Rajan, 2005; and Anil K. Kashyap, Raghuram G. Rajan, and Jeremy C. Stein, 2008).
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What took GM down is they created their own financing arm and got heavily involved in MBS [mortgage backed securities] and CDOs which are heavily leveraged.
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The Fed is finally starting to settle on the first $50 billion of the trillion in MBS paper they are going to buy at non market prices, with money they are printing.
Matthew Yglesias » Non-Sequitur Objections to Bank Nationalization 2009
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Only now the government would also back private insurance for private label MBS with yet another explicit guarantee in case of emergency.
Michael Pento: Geithner's Failed Makeover Michael Pento 2011
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In the years immediately leading up to the implosion of the housing and mortgage finance market, we witnessed an array of new private label MBS that were much more complex than traditional MBS.
David A. Dana: A Simple Approach to Preventing the Next Housing Crisis: Why We Need One, What One Would Look Like, and Why Dodd-Frank Isn't It David A. Dana 2010
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