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18 Oct 2008, 5:22 pm
Can we get a similarly intense investigation into Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, or is there too much danger that it will involve members of Congress? [read post]
18 Oct 2008, 3:28 pm
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — government sponsored enterprises that enjoy an implicit federal guarantee that allows them to borrow money cheaply — stood ready to buy or guarantee all sorts of crazy mortgages. [read post]
17 Oct 2008, 12:25 pm
They make silly comments or ludicrous decisions and then can't figure out why things go awry.Apparently the residents of Massachusetts are not content to select someone like Barney Frank, the flip-flopping guardian of Fannie Mae, as their representative. [read post]
15 Oct 2008, 12:53 pm
Three weeks after the federal government seized control of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae - the two biggest mortgage companies in the United States - news reports indicate that on September 26, 2008, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac each received federal grand jury subpoenas from the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. [read post]
14 Oct 2008, 5:07 am
With the meltdown of the world's financial markets over the last few days, it should come as a shock to no one that pension holders, stock owners, and state governments are suing or considering lawsuits against various actors in the financial crisis, including investment banks, bond ratings agencies, and agencies such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. [read post]
13 Oct 2008, 8:08 pm
Moreover, the balance sheets of many banks are already under pressure because of the banks’ extensive holdings in securities of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and, to a lesser extent, Washington Mutual, AIG, and Lehman Brothers. [read post]
12 Oct 2008, 4:12 pm
They've specifically targeted the mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which the federal government seized on Sept. 6, contending that lending to poor and minority Americans caused Fannie's and Freddie's financial problems. [read post]
11 Oct 2008, 10:20 pm
John McCain realized that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were going to lead to a market meltdown. [read post]
10 Oct 2008, 11:51 pm
Those two lowlives are the former chairs of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. [read post]
10 Oct 2008, 10:24 pm
Hillary Rodham Clinton (PDF 452 KB) Letter Urges the Department of Treasury to Aid Small Businesses, Universities, Students and Municipalities Already Feeling the Damaging Effects of the Credit Crisis Fact Sheet: Shared National Credits Program Reports Large Increase in Credit Volume and Significant Deterioration in Credit Quality (PDF 120 KB) Prepared by the Office of Thrift Supervision, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Office of the… [read post]
10 Oct 2008, 12:52 pm
However, the roster of high-profile firms Cohen has represented just in the past few weeks is stunning, including AIG, Barclays, Fannie Mae, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan Chase, and Wachovia. [read post]
10 Oct 2008, 3:18 am
The complaint names as defendants the five offering underwriters and four directors and officers of Fannie Mae. [read post]
9 Oct 2008, 4:00 pm
" The failure to maintain the ban had serious consequences: Many of the firms that have recently collapsed or have been forced into emergency mergers, takeovers, or government bailouts - Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG - did so during the gaps of time in which there was no meaningful regulation of naked short selling. [read post]
9 Oct 2008, 9:17 am
What do AIG, Barclays, Fannie Mae, Goldman Sachs, J.P. [read post]
8 Oct 2008, 3:25 pm
How about some hearings on Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the gross under funding of the regulatory system over the last 10 years or do the millions in lobbying dollars from those quasi governmental entities not look sexy enough to the congressman who delight in distorting this AIG event as some evil, taxpayer funded retreat? [read post]
8 Oct 2008, 1:33 pm
At last night's debate, Senator McCain trotted out the discredited fiction that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were the root cause of the foreclosure crisis, and that they started the practice of making reckless loans to homeowners who couldn't repay them. [read post]
7 Oct 2008, 8:49 pm
By contrast, lightly regulated hedge funds resisted buying toxic waste for the most part -- though they are now vulnerable to the broader credit crunch because they operate with borrowed money.If that doesn't convince you that deregulation is the wrong scapegoat, consider this: The appetite for toxic mortgages was fueled by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the super-regulated housing finance companies. [read post]
7 Oct 2008, 8:29 pm
I took a peek at Blogometer and I see the Right is trying to pin the economic troubles we have on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. [read post]
7 Oct 2008, 4:33 pm
Fannie and Freddie didn't design their horrific lending policies by chance. [read post]
7 Oct 2008, 2:26 pm
But voters shifted dramatically to Obama following days of triple-digit losses on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the demise of Lehman Brothers, the federal bail-out of AIG, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, debate over the $700 billion bail-out package, and rising unemployment. [read post]
