Obama Government Plans Sweeping Measures to Tackle Foreclosure Related Problems

Amidst growing fears of further bank collapses the Obama government is planning to take sweeping measures to tackle the foreclosure related problem. The financial crisis is escalating.

The strategy that is being planned from Washington is going to be comprehensive with extra focus on the prevention of foreclosure and kick starting a somnolent economy. It shows that the new president will be approaching the problem systematically instead of dealing with them one by one. It will take weeks before the plan will be released said Timothy Geithner nominated to be the Treasury Secretary. He said, “We’re at the beginning of this process of repairing the system, not close to the end of that process. And it is going to require much more substantial action on a very dramatic scale.”

The big question remains about the banking problem and what the administration plans to do about it. For the past few weeks the Obama team had kept on hoping that the financial system, although weak, would remain stable. This would enable them to focus on the general economy that would give a lift to the prospects of ordinary Americans reeling under foreclosures. But lately the fear about more bank collapses has gained ground.

Wall Street cheered the government with a boost in stocks following a day of sell offs.

The new government is thinking on different lines to tackle the foreclosure related financial problems. The first is to continue the policy of the previous government and continue to pump money into the troubled financial bodies so that their balance sheets begin to look healthy. However this does not go down well politically with many highly critical of the banks taking help but not doing anything with it. The second plan is to create a Bad-Bank – this being a replica of the Resolution Trust Corporation that had come into existence during the Savings-and-Loan days. It would purchase the toxic mortgage backed securities and similar other assets from the banking world. The target would be to cut down feelings of uncertainty about the health of the banks, so that they could once more start operating vigorously. The problem is “investors don’t trust that the banks will be profitable again, or will be sound,” said David Kelly of JPMorgan Funds. He said, “At this point, it’s hard to know where the real balance sheet issues end and just fear begins.” The third most drastic step being cautiously mulled is the taking over and breaking banks.

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