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14 Sep 2009, 1:30 pm
  A week before this began, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had been taken over by the government. [read post]
11 Sep 2009, 4:43 am
Put another way, will high-frequency trading purposedly occur on voting record dates to gain leverage over a company? [read post]
4 Sep 2009, 4:51 am
The Troy offense managed just 3.5 yards per play in gaining 304 yards while the Falcons gained 389 yards on 94 plays for a 4.1 net average yards per play. [read post]
20 Aug 2009, 7:47 am
Many borrowers lied on mortgage loan applications, and I suspect some will use misrepresentations to gain cash payments offered by lenders after foreclosure. [read post]
7 Aug 2009, 3:02 pm
Freddie Mac, the second largest provider of U.S. home mortgage funding, on Friday posted its first quarterly profit in two years as gains from hedges and a one-time accounting change offset still-lofty credit losses. [read post]
19 Mar 2009, 12:09 am
Fannie and Freddie are going to pay bonuses too.The psychology of passive barriers. [read post]
1 Mar 2009, 8:46 am
  For example, I was interested to note that as a result of Berkshire’s unsuccessful bid to acquire Constellation Energy, Berkshire not only received a break-up fee of $175 million but also reaped an investment gain on the Constellation shares it did acquire of $ 917 million. [read post]
9 Feb 2009, 7:37 pm
That is nearly half, annually, of what taxpayers are expected to contribute to rescue Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. [read post]
3 Feb 2009, 7:43 am
The firms would then use the acquired company's losses to offset their gains and avoid paying taxes. [read post]
21 Jan 2009, 7:10 am
That deal was structured so that the Government's investment did not force shareholders to take a huge hit on their stock positions - unlike the bailouts for Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac.When asked about the demands of the job, Bason seems to take it all in stride, describing the work as "a thrill. [read post]
6 Jan 2009, 9:16 am
by Stephen Greenspan, from the Wall Street Journalhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB123093987596650197.htmlIntelligent people have long been ruined by frauds. [read post]
27 Dec 2008, 12:01 am
  Russ Roberts writes: There are four factors that helped drive up the price of real estate in the United States and create the housing bubble: The GSEs (Fannie and Freddie), the Community Reinvestment Act, expansionary monetary policy starting in 2001, and the 1997 Taxpayer Relief Act that for the first time let people avoid capital gains on home price appreciation without having to rollover the gains into a bigger house.We have heard a great deal about the first… [read post]
18 Nov 2008, 5:43 pm
Or maybe a) suspending mark to market, b) a zero capital gains tax for the next five years, and a corporate income tax holiday. [read post]
11 Nov 2008, 9:46 pm
As a full-fledged bank, American Express would gain greater access to the Treasury Department's bailout plan for banks, a move that might allow it to lend more freely and perhaps acquire a larger deposit-taking institution. [read post]
31 Oct 2008, 11:06 am
American taxpayers have gained no meaningful control over the banks, which is why the banks are free to spend the new money as they wish. [read post]
28 Sep 2008, 11:18 pm
But long ago in all this, Wall Street, with Frank, Schumer, Dodd, et al., in train, along with the executives of Freddie and Fannie, switched from risk taking to rent seeking. [read post]
25 Sep 2008, 11:47 pm
Only then will managers eschew short term profits for long term gains, as they used to do when they were partners in private concerns. [read post]
19 Sep 2008, 4:32 pm
It is indeed sad that hardworking Americans will be called upon to pay for Wall Street's excesses and abuses while many of the culprits remain in ivory towers living off their ill-gotten gains. [read post]
16 Sep 2008, 5:37 pm
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had to be effectively taken over by the government. [read post]