We have heard a lot of ideas over the past several months regarding how to address the growing number of home mortgage foreclosures across the country.  With the estimate of the number of homes at risk seemingly rising on a daily basis and a general government bail-out almost an impossibility given the federal budget deficit, I thought this idea from Steve Pearlstein of the Washington Post was an interesting market-driven approach to the problem.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/30/AR2007083001956.html?hpid=sec-business