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7 Nov 2009, 3:40 pm
There are some things that every single US citizen should know… Preface In 2003, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”), proposed a regulation that would preempt essentially all state banking and financial services laws as applied to national banks and their operating subsidiaries. [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 4:32 am by Mandelman
Now, I’m sitting here looking at Chris Whalen’s slide show, and Laurie Goodman’s remarks, and I’m thinking about the FHFA preventing Fannie and Freddie from doing any principal reductions, which I just wrote about yesterday… … and I’m remembering President Obama introducing the Making Home Affordable Program, and the cheers from the throngs of Americans who had waited for him to do something about the free fall in housing prices… and how… [read post]
14 Feb 2012, 4:28 am by Mandelman
This was a very controversial aspect of the settlement because Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were concerned about the moral hazard aspect of rewarding people for having lost their home to foreclosure. [read post]
3 Dec 2009, 9:07 pm
On July and early September 2008 Freddie Mae and Fannie Mae, two government-sponsored companies in the mortgage industry, were aided by the U.S. [read post]
12 Apr 2009, 7:19 am
Ron: Until this crisis (which started in with Bear Stearns in March 2008 or with Fannie, Freddie, and AIG in September 2008, depending on your perspective), I would have said the prospects for any real change were close to zero. [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 5:42 am by Mandelman
  Look, I like Frank and Brian of Think Big/Work Small… I really do. [read post]
27 Aug 2015, 6:00 am by INFORRM
Most people are aware of the phone hacking scandal and the high profile defendants at the ‘trial of the century’ last year. [read post]
26 Mar 2017, 4:06 pm by INFORRM
Freddy Mayhew in the Press Gazette also referred to the publishing of these pictures, saying that the attack raised “both ethical and legal questions for journalists. [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 8:14 am by Mandelman
    “It’s hard to imagine a less-deserving group of victims: people who gambled during the housing bubble by purchasing homes with borrowed money that they knew or should have known they couldn’t afford, but who are now able to stay in the homes they should have never bought because of what amounts to paperwork errors on the part of the nation’s big banks. [read post]
26 Mar 2012, 6:52 am by INFORRM
The PCC has not made any new adjudications during its transition period, but there are several resolved cases to report: Mr Philip Bovey v The Independent, Clause 12, 26/03/2012; Mr Nic Bullough v Southern Daily Echo, Clause 1, 23/03/2012; Mr Freddie Wright v Daily Mail, Clause 1, 23/03/2012; Dr John Glasspool v The Daily Telegraph, Clause 1, 23/03/2012; The Scottish Refugee Council v Scottish Daily Mail, Clause 1, 23/03/2012; Ms Lucy Buckingham v Southport Visiter, Clause 6, 9, 21/03/2012;… [read post]
17 Jul 2021, 4:08 pm by INFORRM
The BBC has developed a reputation for arrogantly brushing off criticism and failing to acknowledge and rectify mistakes before the consequent damage to its reputation has been done. [read post]
26 Apr 2011, 11:01 am by admin
  They foresee the municipal debt markets seizing up – in much the same way Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s liquidity markets nearly froze up two years ago – and they are trying to create CDS lubrication to keep the markets functioning. [read post]
2 Nov 2017, 3:00 am by INFORRM
“#MeToo”: Five letters that have been tweeted millions of times in the past month, and demonstrate the enormous power of social media and how it can bring about change for the good. [read post]
18 May 2008, 10:00 am
Written by Empress Eve When I was 12, I went down to my local video store and rented the VHS tape of The Hotel New Hampshire. [read post]
7 May 2007, 7:25 am
[Previous months in review available here: March 07, Feb 07, Jan 07; Dec 06,]   With the spectacular implosion of subprime lender New Century, Breaking the bank: New Century files bankruptcy, I devoted a lot of pixels to the subprime problem, starting with a primer, Subprime lending: the dramatis personae and offering some gratuitous advice in What's a delinquent borrower to do? [read post]
16 Mar 2012, 12:00 am by INFORRM
Once a rough trade in self-serving but criminogenic information was elevated to the more noble, although self-appointed, task of ‘holding people to account’ in ‘the news of the screws’ and the media more generally, it was inevitable that political careers, and lives generally, would be destroyed by a barely regulated industry of censure and slur. [read post]
26 Jan 2011, 12:54 am by Kevin LaCroix
In recent days, I have published a series of posts with analysis of and commentary on recent trends in securities class action litigation. [read post]
27 Jul 2010, 5:12 am by Mandelman
For the last year, at least, I’ve been telling him that there was no real estate market… that tax incentives and the Fed’s buying of mortgage backed securities, along with FHA, Fannie and Freddie were all propping things up artificially and that when that stimulus ended, housing prices would commence falling through the floor. [read post]