Topic: Fannie Mae

I hope Tea Party Republicans and other readers would take a look at all the sections of this hub. I would suggest that Wall Street must be laughing at the Tea Party misplaced anger. If the Tea Party wants to do something ...
Once again my obsession with the elite media has me wondering how many people know the truth about Barney Frank. Barney Frank has had a relationship with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac going back decades. Frank was pushing Fannie Mae and Freddie ...

Obama and the end of America.

It is utterly amazing to hear Obama and Pelosi and other hate America radicals demonize capitalism and Republicans as the culprits of our present assumed financial crises. Way back in 1999 a senate investigations was decried by the likes of Maxine Waters ...
In Monday's Wall Street Journal, a Page One story examines investment gains reeled in by congressional aides. To a man (or woman), each of the staffers cited in the story -including aides to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), House Speaker Nancy ...

Democrat says abolish Freddie, Fannie: report

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should be abolished, Rep. Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services panel, said on Tuesday."They should be abolished," Frank said in an interview on Fox Business, when asked whether the mortgage giants should ...

Lawmakers urge guidance for clean energy loans

Two influential Democratic lawmakers warned on Friday that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could derail a $150 million clean-energy home-financing program and urged the Obama administration to rectify the problem with new regulatory guidance.. Rep. Barney Frank, chairman of the U.S. House ...
This fairly well sums up my view: With regard to Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE), either the Treasury securities issued in order to cover their losses will crowd out other private investment, or the eventual inflationary effects of printing money ...
The government steps in repeatedly to bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie MacKey events in the government's rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: As the housing market unravels, regulators loosen restraints on Washington-based Fannie and McLean, Va.-based Freddie so they can ...

Capital Briefs

* SPECIAL ELECTION IN ILLINOIS? No sooner had the sensational arrest of Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich hit the airwaves last week than Democratic leaders in the Illinois legislature moved rapidly to pass a law provid- . That could well be one of ...
or SMP was announced with great fanfare at 2:00 PM Tuesday. Mortgages must be held (owned) by Fannie, Freddie or portfolio lenders. Fannie and Freddie will pay servicers $800 to perform a mortgage modification. Other than steering Fannie and Freddie, this free ...
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