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10 May 2010, 9:07 pm by Jacob Sapochnick
Marchant (R-TX) on 3/3/10 Summary: Amends the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Act to prohibit the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Act (Freddie Mac) from purchasing a single-family housing (1-to-4 family residence) mortgage unless the identity and work… [read post]
5 May 2010, 8:59 am by Thom Lambert
Lenders financed these transactions because they knew they could sell their mortgages to federally-backed greater fools, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. [read post]
3 May 2010, 11:50 pm by Mandelman
The Federal National Mortgage Association is today’s Fannie Mae, and it was originally established in 1938 as part of FDR’s New Deal. [read post]
30 Apr 2010, 6:35 pm by James Hamilton
Covered employees are defined as both as employees of the company and non-employee directors of a major federal emergency economic assistance recipient.The Act defines major federal emergency economic assistance recipients as financial institutions of which the federal government acquired an equity interest of more than $5 million pursuant to a program authorized by the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, as well as the Federal National Mortgage… [read post]
20 Apr 2010, 12:12 pm by David Lat
Near the end, there’s a hang-up with a federal regulation, which provides that Fannie Mae will guarantee mortgages in new condo developments — like mine — only if 70 percent of the units are sold or under contract. [read post]
6 Apr 2010, 2:00 pm by LindaMBeale
  "It's no one cause" she said--you can't blame it on Fannie Mae or any of those current whipping posts. [read post]
26 Mar 2010, 7:13 pm by Steve Bainbridge
Besides the modification program, the government also has taken over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; created and prolonged a first-time home buyers' tax credit; and increased the role of the Federal Housing Administration, which in 2009 insured nearly 30% of single-family mortgages. [read post]
22 Mar 2010, 7:21 pm by Kevin Funnell
A paranoid person might suspect that there's a method to this madness, that the federal regulators have decided to nationalize the entire commercial banking system of this country, in the same way that it's in the process of effectively nationalizing the residential mortgage lending business through its de facto nationalization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and its dramatic expansion of FHA lending. [read post]
11 Mar 2010, 10:05 pm by JW Verret
 Political leaders responsible for policies that subsidized dangerous mortgage practices through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac now seek to expand financial regulations to generate the appearance of responsive action. [read post]
9 Mar 2010, 12:41 pm by gstasiewicz
” According to Judicial Watch’s motion filed on March 5, 2009, Fannie and Freddie are no longer private enterprises, and therefore their records are subject to FOIA law: “At issue in this Freedom of Information Act (‘FOIA’) lawsuit is whether FHFA, the federal agency that has custody and control of the records of Federal National Mortgage Association (‘Fannie Mae’) and Federal Home… [read post]
9 Mar 2010, 12:14 am by Ilya Somin
This has been especially true during the continuing financial crisis, with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Housing Administration propping up the housing market by issuing guarantees for investors on most new mortgages. [read post]
4 Mar 2010, 4:13 pm by James Hamilton
Covered employees are defined as both as employees of the company and non-employee directors of a major federal emergency economic assistance recipient.The Act defines major federal emergency economic assistance recipients as financial institutions of which the federal government acquired an equity interest of more than $5 million pursuant to a program authorized by the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, as well as the Federal National Mortgage… [read post]
4 Mar 2010, 5:09 am
Byrne focused his presentation on the new guidelines issues by the Federal Housing Administration ("FHA"), the Federal National Mortgage Agency ("Fannie Mae") and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation ("Freddie Mac") in relation to loans made in condominiums. [read post]
16 Feb 2010, 4:50 pm by James Hamilton
Covered employees are defined as both as employees of the company and non-employee directors of a major federal emergency economic assistance recipient.The Act defines major Federal emergency economic assistance recipients as financial institutions of which the federal government acquired an equity interest of more than $5 million pursuant to a program authorized by the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, as well as the Federal National Mortgage… [read post]
12 Feb 2010, 4:39 pm by Kevin L. Britt
” The Act states that information typically requested by entities like the federal national mortgage association and the department of housing and urban development is discoverable in a resale certificate if it is reasonably available to the association. [read post]
5 Feb 2010, 6:05 am by Hal Scott, Harvard Law School,
None of the most prominent failures of the financial crisis—Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, Bear Stearns, or Lehman Brothers—were deposit-taking banks. [read post]
4 Feb 2010, 9:52 am by Neil Burns
The federal Department of Treasury announced new guidelines to streamline mortgage application processes for all mortgage applicants, including those in Boston and Massachusetts who apply for a mortgage associated with Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. [read post]
29 Jan 2010, 8:58 am
In that role he advised, among others, the directors at the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) during its accounting scandal in 2004. [read post]