Housing Finance and the Macroeconomy: A Pick-Up Internet Symposium Ongoing as of Thursday, January 16, 2014

An anchor piece:

• Michael Hiltzik: The housing market is still a drag on the economy–but why?

and fifteen worthwhile contributions and analyses:

1. Felix Salmon: Why banks aren’t lending to homebuyers
2. Kevin Drum: Kevin Drum: It’s Time to Fix the Housing Finance Market
3. Brad DeLong: What Market Failures Underlie Our Fears of “Secular Stagnation”?: The Honest Broker for the Week of January 12, 2014
4. David Min: Why the 30-Year Fixed-Rate Mortgage Is an Essential Part of Our Housing Finance System
5. Peter Eavis and Jessica Silver-Greenberg: As Refinancing Wanes, Banks Are Wary of New Loans
6. Peter Coy: New Mortgage Rules Won’t Knock Out Many Borrowers
7. Joe Garrett: Time to Quit Mortgage Banking?
8. Brad DeLong: What Are the Risks of Quantitative Easing, Really? |
9. Kevin Drum: 2014 Might Turn Out to be a Fairly Good Year for the Economy
10. Nick Timiraos: Mel Watt Has Signaled a Major Housing-Policy Shift
11. Andrew Khouri: Southern California home prices surge in December
12. Adam J. Levitin: A Legislative Proposal to Protect American Taxpayers and Homeowners by Creating a Sustainable Housing Finance System
13. Phil Swagel: A Transition in Fannie and Freddie Oversight
14. Thorsten Beck: Housing Finance across Countries: New Data and Analysis
15. Robert Shiller: Why Is Housing Finance Still Stuck in Such a Primitive Stage?