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17 Sep 2008, 1:03 am
UPDATE: McCain goes after Obama on this and on his Fannie Mae contributions. [read post]
16 Sep 2008, 6:51 pm
Johnson - former Fannie Mae CEO and Obama Advisor Just cost you billions in taxes Franklin Raines â € â [read post]
16 Sep 2008, 5:37 pm
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had to be effectively taken over by the government. [read post]
16 Sep 2008, 5:21 pm
Power and Control does good job brining lots of threads together with regard to Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, the origins of the mortgage meltdown that brought those entities down, Congressional oversight failures, Barack Obama and ACORN.It doesn't go anywhere, but it does seem like there is lots going on in and around this mess. [read post]
16 Sep 2008, 12:18 pm
(Notably, after leaving WilmerHale in 1995, Kelly became GC at Fannie Mae.) [read post]
16 Sep 2008, 11:00 am
FACT: The federal government put Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into conservatorship on September 8. [read post]
16 Sep 2008, 4:42 am
HMM: "The failure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, setting in motion the biggest government bailout/takeover in U.S. history, brings a grim sense of fulfillment to competent economists. [read post]
16 Sep 2008, 2:22 am
This asset wipeout comes on the heels of the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac takeout, and at the same time as the precipitous decline in AIG’s shares. [read post]
16 Sep 2008, 2:18 am
" Given Obama's close connections to Fannie Mae and Lehman, he shouldn't press this issue too hard. [read post]
16 Sep 2008, 1:53 am
Here's the recent tally:1) When Bear Sterns is in trouble, the federal govt subsidizes its acquisition by JP Morgan Chase.2) When Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are in trouble, the federal govt takes them over outright.3) When Lehman Bros. is in trouble, the executive branch of the federal govt does nothing, leaving the bankruptcy court to sort things out.4) When Merrill Lynch is in trouble, the federal government watches closely, and then breathes a sigh of relief as Bank of… [read post]
15 Sep 2008, 10:12 pm
As an investment bank, Lehman Brothers followed the lead of Salomon Brothers, that invented the non-Fannie/Ginnie Mae mortgage-backed securities business: An ambitious mail-room clerk named Lew Ranieri worked at S[a]lomon Brothers and saw an opportunity in the mid 80s. [read post]
15 Sep 2008, 6:10 pm
Sure, there are trouble spots in the economy, as the government takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and jitters about Wall Street firm Lehman Brothers, amply demonstrate. [read post]
15 Sep 2008, 5:48 pm
"The taxpayers have already been burdened by the unexpected events at Bear Stearns and the sadly predictable collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie [...] [read post]
15 Sep 2008, 3:44 pm
UPDATE: More on Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the political class. [read post]
15 Sep 2008, 3:15 pm
A couple of months before the government takeover of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, Congress passed a new law providing financial backing for these quasi-governmental agencies, straight out of the U.S. [read post]
15 Sep 2008, 2:08 pm
I work out in the gym below the Fannie Mae Foundation, next door to Fannie; they are large institutions, and their financial stability has always been a certain bulwark for the District economically. [read post]
15 Sep 2008, 12:37 pm
Although at the moment, with two major financial institutions going into either outright liquidation (Lehman) or de facto liquidation (Bear), and a government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, you'd have to wonder if our cost of capital is still the lowest in the world. [read post]
15 Sep 2008, 10:47 am
Regulators Reach Out to Lehman Account HoldersDeal Journal: Winners and Losers of the Lehman-Merrill WeekendNews Tracker: Latest updates on Monday's developmentsComplete Coverage: Crisis on Wall StreetArnold Kling shares thoughts here and here.Alex Tabarrok adds:Thanks goodness we bailed out Bear Stearns back in March if we hadn't we might have lost Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and who knows what else. [read post]
15 Sep 2008, 7:28 am
Second this article about Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae supported, perish the thought, nationalizing them. [read post]
15 Sep 2008, 5:14 am
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were lucky to beat the rush last week.According to the advocates of the view that business is self-regulating and doesn't need government regulations tying its hands, or lawyers suing it into oblivion to keep it honest, we should be in the biggest economic expansion, business boom, ever in the history of mankind this morning. [read post]
