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                              Our Corner of the Valley                                                                 Scott Taper
                                                                                                         VP, Business Development, VCTaskforce
                   By Scott Taper      “Mortgage-Backed            paper for my MBA at             SciTech Commercialization and Licensing Consultants
                                       Bonds for Savings and       Santa Clara University.                         www.scitechcal.com
              CORRECTION:              Loan Associations:          I, unfortunately, never
           In my last article, my      Management and Public       returned it to Dr. Bradford   and must be used           of the Business School at
           inaugural article, I wrote   Policy Issues” (Bradford,   and later I found that it   cautiously and only in      University of Maryland
           that June Riley, CEO and    W. D., 1980).  His          was indeed out of print.     a rapidly growing real      and later Dean at the
           founder of VCTaskforce      findings were profoundly       This brings me to my      estate market.  Today’s     University of Washington,
           graduated from Boston       predictive of the later     point, which is avoiding     fixed interest rates are    where he now enjoys the
           University.  It was         turmoil in the real         variable rate mortgages,     historically low, enabling   status of dean emeritus,
           Northeastern University.    estate housing markets      when possible.  They         very low payments for       still teaching and writing.
           Also, the meetings in       slowdowns in 1989 and       are great for some home      higher value properties.       Reference: Bradford,
           San Francisco take place    predicting housing market   buyers in an undervalued     When you buy, think long    W. D., 1980, “Mortgage-
           in 4 Embarcadero, not 1     crash.                      market with expected         term.                       Backed Bonds for Savings
           Embarcadero.  Now on to        In Dr. Bradford’s        future growth.  Past            NOTE: After not          and Loan Associations:
           new business.               writings, there were        experience has proven that   receiving tenure at         Management and Public
              Back in 1980 Dr.         predictions that that       variable rate mortgages      Stanford, Dr. Bradford      Policy Issues”
           William D. Bradford,        mortgaged backed bonds      are abused instruments       went on be associate Dean
           a young assistant           could be severely affected
           professor at Stanford       because of the use of
           Business School wrote       variable rate mortgages to
           a monogram, a book on       attract buyers into home
           one subject that explored   markets when there were
           the effects of the newly    shortages of qualified
           granted variable rate       buyers.   He correctly
           mortgages that could be     predicted that abuse of
           offered by savings and      variable rate mortgages
           loans and banks.  That      would eventually lead to
           monogram was written        a catastrophic collapse
           by Dr. Bradford as part     of the real estate market
           of a summer project he      in the late 1990s or early
           performed as Summer         2000s.  I know these facts
           Scholar for the San         because he entrusted his
           Francisco office of the     only copy to me when
           Federal Home Loan Bank      I was preparing my
           Board.  It was entitled     capstone team marketing





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