Housing Market May Get Fed Aid

``Federal Reserve officials are starting to build a case for a new program of buying mortgage-backed securities to boost the ailing economy, though they appear unlikely to move swiftly in this direction. The idea would be to target any new efforts by the central bank at the parts of the economy that are most severely impeding a recovery--the housing and mortgage markets--by working to push down mortgage rates.'' -- That's right, pump more blood transfusions into the dead patient...