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The government guarantees them. Banks would never offer this product otherwise.


The government does not guarantee mortgages.


it is more complicated than the gp makes it seem, but 30 year mortgages are absolutely a creation of policy in the form of federally owned corporations that rebuy mortgages that were written according to a standard policy.

https://www.grarate.com/article/history-30-year-mortgage




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