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11 Nov 2008, 9:46 pm
The recent bailouts of financial institutions -- including that supremely arrogant titan of insurance, AIG, and its mortgage-buying counterparts, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- has opened up vast new vistas for salvaging plummeting fortunes. [read post]
28 Feb 2010, 7:20 pm
We noted earlier this month that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were in "full put-back mode. [read post]
9 Jan 2012, 9:00 pm
A major part of TPTCCA is the provision increasing fees for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. [read post]
4 Dec 2018, 11:15 am
” Using terms compiled from other entities, including the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Internal Revenue Service, Department of Justice, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Federal Trade Commission, Social Security Administration, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, General Services Administration, and National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals, the updated Glossary now contains over 1,500 consumer financial terms translated from… [read post]
10 Dec 2013, 4:26 am
Recently, our action has been divided into two potential class actions: One action involves the lender placed hazard insurance which has been charged to homeowners with standard Fannie Mae Freddie Mac uniform mortgages by OneWest Bank and IndyMac through the insurance company Assurant and its subsidiary, American Security Insurance Company. [read post]
15 Dec 2010, 5:19 pm
They appear to argue that there was nothing wrong in the way financial institutions were operating - it was all Fannie, Freddie, and the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 (that evidently slow-acting time bomb that also somehow exploded across Europe).They also apparently demanded that the main report not use the terms Wall Street, deregulation, interconnectedness, and shadow banking, and followed this strange counsel in their own document. [read post]
6 Nov 2011, 7:58 am
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are the archetypes of this symbiosis: they are government-backed forces in the capital markets built around support for the single most important American social program of the blue period: home ownership. . . . [read post]
25 Nov 2008, 10:33 pm
In a separate move, the Fed announced that it will purchase $500 billion in mortgage-backed securities backed by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and directly buy up $100 billion of the troubled lenders' debt. [read post]
24 Aug 2010, 11:56 am
"Moving on:"The irony is that, in failure, the GSEs (Fannie Mae and Freddie MAC) have become more important than ever. [read post]
17 Sep 2008, 6:42 pm
Additionally, today the Mortgage Bankers Association reported that new mortgage applications surged following the interest rate decreases that occurred after the government’s announcement that it would provide big heaps of financial backing to save Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. [read post]
26 Jul 2009, 5:01 pm
Wow, there's no way the Obama administration would have ever come up with such innovations.Two mild notes of interest in the emerging legislative calculus of the Party of No: the bill calls for Fannie and Freddie to have their charters repealed, and goes after the Fed, not just keeping it out of the systemic regulator position, but also calling for the central bank to be audited regularly by the GAO.It's the anti-Fed tenor of the party that is most intriguing here. [read post]
15 Aug 2012, 5:41 am
Bad Loans: Government-owned Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are stepping up efforts to find bad home loans that they can force mortgage lenders to buy back from them, providing an increasingly bigger headache to banks. [read post]
22 Jun 2022, 10:43 am
On Tuesday, the NAR said the median price on an existing home rose to $407,600 in May from $395,500 in April, while Freddie Mac reported last week that the average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage was 5.78%, up from 5.23% a week earlier and from an April average of 4.98%. [read post]
8 Oct 2008, 8:17 pm
After learning that Fannie and Freddie owned Obama, I was going to vote for McCain. [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 5:49 am
Sleeping Watchdog: The federal agency overseeing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the taxpayer-owned mortgage finance giants, failed to refer to criminal investigators and other authorities almost 100 complaints about possible foreclosure abuse and mortgage fraud at the companies over a recent two-year period, The New York Times reports. [read post]
16 Apr 2008, 1:12 pm
The MBA group doesn't quote rates for the new "agency jumbos," those of more than $417K but which Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will buy from now until the end of the year. [read post]
18 Apr 2010, 7:44 am
Treasury Department officials on their takeover of mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. [read post]
26 Jun 2012, 6:40 pm
The charging documents also name Freddy Arguelles, a former pilot of the Venezuelan Air Force (also no longer in Florida), as well as Victor Brown, a Hialeah Gardens aircraft parts trader, as co-defendants. [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 three, but Russ… [read post]
29 Sep 2008, 5:06 pm
After all, the seizure of Fannie and Freddie, the takeovers of AIG and WaMu, the modified Paulson plan â€â [read post]
