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2 Sep 2008, 8:03 pm
Having now become explicitly government-backed entities, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (and their supporters in Congress) can no longer argue that they do not pose a risk to taxpayers. [read post]
2 Sep 2008, 11:49 am
An idea has been floating around Wall Street for several weeks, says Andrew Ross Sorkin: A merger of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. [read post]
29 Aug 2008, 2:40 pm
We are about to see massive monetary inflation as a result of the unprecedented bail out of banks, quasi banks such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, with the result being a bond market in long bonds unlike anything we have seen since the late 1970s and early 1980s. [read post]
29 Aug 2008, 11:17 am
Fannie Mae's workers had $116 million in the employee stock ownership plan at the end of 2006. [read post]
28 Aug 2008, 11:55 am
Fannie Mae should get through this difficult housing cycle with core capital remaining at or above the 15 percent excess capital [...] [read post]
27 Aug 2008, 2:44 pm
Government officials are debating what to do with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and their shares swoon in the markets. [read post]
26 Aug 2008, 7:20 pm
I’ve written in the past about the fact that OFHEO numbers often do a pretty bad job of judging the San Jose and San Francisco markets, because the agency only reports on transactions in which Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac-backed mortgages were used. [read post]
26 Aug 2008, 11:18 am
Two of the biggest U.S. bond investors said they would get involved in a capital raising by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as long as the Treasury department participates in the new deals. [read post]
25 Aug 2008, 9:07 pm
JPMorgan Chase said the market value of its investments in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac preferred stock has dropped by half to $600 million this quarter, casting a pall on Freddie's successful $2 billion debt offering. [read post]
25 Aug 2008, 11:37 am
As investors and industry observers become increasingly convinced that the government will move to bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, The New York Times' Gretchen Morgenson looks at who will ultimately pay for the bailout. [read post]
25 Aug 2008, 3:23 am
One of the principal lessons of our tragic century, which has seen so many innocent lives sacrificed in schemes to improve the lot of humanity, is -- beware intellectuals. [read post]
23 Aug 2008, 8:20 pm
These requirements are no less important with the recent lending rule changes adopted by Fannie Mae. [read post]
22 Aug 2008, 11:28 am
As the stocks of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have plummeted, financial shares have taken a beating. [read post]
21 Aug 2008, 9:13 pm
Not only because of Rezko but because of Jim Johnson, his former go-to-guy on veeps who was instrumental to the mortgage crisis we have today as Chairman of Fannie Mae. [read post]
21 Aug 2008, 11:46 am
As policy makers work to ease the strain on the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a consensus is emerging that the two companies will have to look substantially different in the long term. [read post]
21 Aug 2008, 9:03 am
The mortgage interest deduction, the deduction for state and local taxes, support for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, direct subsidies for loans and first-home purchases, etc., are all based on the idea that home ownership is the ultimate goal of adulthood. [read post]
20 Aug 2008, 6:38 pm
Not exactly (via Bader, emphasis added): Internal documents show that even late in the housing bubble, [federal-government-sponsored] Fannie Mae was drawn to risky loans by a variety of temptations, including the desire to increase... [read post]
20 Aug 2008, 5:40 pm
As shares of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae take a pounding, some Wall Street players are feeling the pain a lot more than others. [read post]
20 Aug 2008, 11:27 am
Financial conditions are continuing to worsen at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, leading some investors to prepare for a government bailout of the housing giants even as the Treasury Department and the companies say such government intervention will not be necessary. [read post]
15 Aug 2008, 7:59 pm
Newsweek has a very interesting article that describes the bullying former Georgia Governor Roy Barnes was subjected to by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and others when he tried to crack down on lenders, rating agencies and securitizers who were supporting... [read post]
