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Is owning a house a risky investment? Answer by Marco Giacoletti, Assistant Professor of Finance at University of Southern California

Only a few years after the Federal Housing Administration required $1.7 billion in special appropriations from Congress to cover losses in its single-family housing mortgage insurance program, some members of Congress now want to derail the agency’s efforts to return to some semblance of fiscal sanity.

Subprime loan delinquency rates are higher than 2008 recession levels, with unemployment still near all-time lows and the layoff cycle just beginning. But Fed won't rescue the housing market

Two holders of Sunac China Holdings dollar bonds had yet to receive interest payments ahead of Wednesday’s deadline.

>> stocks kept going up. >> everything. people didn't know that it was going to fall off the cliff till it fell off a cliff. in hindsight, everybody is thinking i knew, this or that. there's a book, the book out "the big short." there were a few people who saw it. they were atypical people and i'm not even sure, but for the benefit that they'd been prove right, how -- if it didn't happen, how would they have looked. now, look at all the people who they were so much smarter than. we were so expert. we didn't know. look at all those firms that failed because of the housing risk. did they know? l...