Although around 60% of students get grants or government-backed loans, these cover only 70-80% of fees.
To that end, we're proposing to waive fees and increase the guarantees for SBA-backed loans.
It will make sure we continue to waive some of the fees for SBA-backed loans.
Chrysler turned around quickly and Iacocca was able to repay the government-backed loans seven years earlier than expected.
But that requires an immediate write-off at a time when the market prices of asset-backed loans are depressed.
We should also continue to waive fees, increase guarantees, and expand the size of SBA-backed loans for small businesses.
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For example, HUD says that it will market at least 40, 000 FHA-backed loans that are seriously delinquent next year.
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Yet it could throw out the more stringent GSE standards, which have performed much more reliably than commercial backed loans.
As written, the new fee was to be a minimum of .1% on Fannie Mae- and Freddie Mac-backed loans.
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SBA-backed loans have traditionally made up a fraction of overall small-business loans.
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President Obama's recently revealed budget proposal includes a provision that would make the government the sole provider of federally backed loans to students.
With consumer-backed loans, particularly with mortgages, the rate of prepayment on the loan is rather predictable depending on current interest rates and economic conditions.
When borrowers fail to keep up payments on mortgages in the pool that supports asset-backed loans, Fannie and Freddie must buy back the loan.
It won't even let its 1, 200 students take federally backed loans.
As for the eight and a half percent interest rate that so upsets parents and students who've taken out government-backed loans, that is here to stay.
Although their reach in the shadow inventory is dwarfed by Fannie and Freddie, FHA backed loans are densely packed in cities, often making up a sizable share of the delinquent loans.
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Basically, private lenders give out government-backed loans to students.
Meanwhile, the Congressional Budget Office predicts a 50% or higher default rate on taxpayer-backed loans to nuclear utilities enabled through the 2005 energy bill, now being considered in Congress for a tenfold expansion.
Senior administration officials said the decision speaks to her accomplishments at the agency, such as reducing lender paperwork for SBA-backed loans, enforcing stricter oversight of government contracting and rolling out several laws that facilitated more lending to small businesses.
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And if you combine it with my proposal back in December to continue waiving fees and increasing guarantees for SBA-backed loans, all this will help small banks do even more of what our economy needs -- and that's ensure that small businesses are once again the engine of job growth in America.
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The big help has come from selling asset-backed securities, bunches of loans backed by assets like car loans.
But the mortgage variety insists on using oceans of leverage to buy bonds backed by loans to homeowners or commercial landlords and, to a lesser degree, freestanding property loans to both.
And to Wall Street the best part is the federal guarantees it retains: 86% of its loan portfolio, by dollar volume, is government-backed student loans--usually smallish amounts, for families of modest means.
Already, he points out, banks have had to write down a fair amount of lending on cars because banks were too optimistic about the residual value of the cars that backed the loans.
Strayer has been a target of short sellers since July, when the Department of Education first published a draft of potential rule changes that could make some for-profit colleges ineligible for government backed student loans and grants.
They priced portfolios of mortgage-backed bonds, corporate loans and securities backed by commercial real estate, and provided more liquidity to debt markets.
Rising defaults on subprime mortgages, loans extended to people with poor credit histories, has caused the value of securities backed by home loans to drop.
He touted the administration's initiative to expand the number of loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration, and he praised a private-sector plan to temporarily freeze loans that are headed for foreclosure.
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