Could Mayor Mark Funkhouser’s plan to halt home foreclosures make things even worse?

As evidence mounts that trigger-happy banks have been improperly foreclosing on homes across the country, Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser is grabbing some publicity by calling for a state-wide moratorium on foreclosures.

Anything that forces the banks to holster their signing pens sounds like a good plan. But calls for a national moratorium have been met with fear that such a move would slow down a sluggish housing market, twisting the knife in our already shivved economy.