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10 Feb 2015, 12:04 pm
Community banks are ailing. [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 8:14 am
“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]
11 Oct 2011, 10:33 am
Let me see if I’ve got this straight… The Great Recession, or whatever we’re calling it, began in December 2007. [read post]
21 Sep 2008, 9:16 pm
Thanks to the helpful intervention of techs at Dreamhost, I managed to pull up a backup of the blog’s database and find at least 95% of the lost text for last Friday’s McCain bashing entry. [read post]
14 Feb 2012, 4:28 am
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]
16 Oct 2011, 8:39 pm
Well, that’s a pretty safe statement, but when? [read post]
1 Oct 2008, 8:13 pm
Friends, The richest 400 Americans -- that's right, just four hundred people -- own MORE than the bottom 150 million Americans combined. 400 rich Americans have got more stashed away than half the entire country! [read post]
27 Aug 2015, 6:00 am
Most people are aware of the phone hacking scandal and the high profile defendants at the ‘trial of the century’ last year. [read post]
10 Oct 2013, 6:04 pm
Our final relist comes from a state that always avoids judicial controversy: Freddie Lee Hall v. [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]
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]
David Skeel’s Excellent Book, and Comparing Discretion in the Financial Crisis and National Security
7 Jan 2011, 8:29 pm
The corporatist tendency is also a founding feature of Freddie and Fannie, and the extraordinarily politicized activities of both firms as integral to their business models — both buying off Congress and yet chanelling the political will of administrations and bureaucracies — is what Skeel suggests will result from the corporatist model, quite apart from the problem of a lack of moral hazard leading to a regime of permanent bailouts. [read post]
1 Feb 2016, 11:44 am
“Isn’t it a fact that the Bank does have an injury from the property taxes and insurance that they advanced under the mortgage alone? [read post]
2 Sep 2010, 7:53 am
Aside from giving the global financial markets confidence that treasury was standing firmly behind Fannie and Freddie – confidence further buttressed by the year-end lifting of funding caps – it also had the secondary effect, a probably-intended consequence, of holding down interest rates by essentially printing money. [read post]
15 Nov 2010, 10:59 am
Okay, so you’ve heard that Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke is at it again… he’s doing some more of that Quantitative Easing or “QE2,” if you prefer the wonky acronym the media has attached to the program. [read post]
26 Apr 2011, 11:01 am
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]
19 Jan 2008, 11:58 am
On January 31, 2002, a Federal Grand Jury in the Western District of Tennessee returned a 22-count indictment against Freddie Peters. [read post]
15 Dec 2015, 3:27 pm
UPDATE: In what came as a surprise to absolutely no one, this case was all but laughed out of court when it finally came before a judge. [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 5:42 am
Look, I like Frank and Brian of Think Big/Work Small… I really do. [read post]
25 May 2011, 4:46 pm
”) And today, the only mortgage lending in this country comes from the federal government… Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the FHA. [read post]
