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Senator Dodd's Housing Solution - Cramer's Mad Money (5/21/08)

The Dodd proposal smells of private interest money working behind his bill. It is too little, too limited, and too late.
Since nobody seems to know just how many ALT-A and higher mortgages are set to go up in the years 2010 to 2011, it is safe to say we are far from seeing the tail end of this housing and credit crisis.
That being the case, the Congress and the administration must be ready to deal head on with the most extreme scenario ready to unfold between now and 2011. Massive middle and upper middle class housing failures across the country with dire prospects for the states and their ability to raise revenue from property taxes.
Only a bailout by directing cash in the form of 35 to 50 year loans at low interest rates to help the broad middle class from going under will stave off the worst scenarios of the Bush depression now in the making.