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FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC

The bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has signaled an economic crisis for many. How are the mortgage finance companies faring as the housing market slumps? What will the government do to prop them up and keep them operating effectively?

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The Fannie-Freddie Takeover: Now We're Left Holding The Bagmore

It was extremely frustrating to see the NYT take a namby-pamby diplomatic approach to excusing the audit firms from any...

Government Hypocrisy in GSE Bailout?more

In a sign that the more things change, the more they stay the same, the FT speculated today that the Treasury...

GSE Takeawaysmore

The key takeaways are that in terms of capital infusion into the entities, the Treasury has put itself ahead of the...

Fannie and Freddiemore

Measured by the dollar amount involved, the nationalisation of the mortgage guarantors Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,...

Fannie and Freddie Go Under: Yes, This Was Predictablemore

Okay, this is a bit of gloating. After having debated the economists at Fannie and Freddie more than a dozen times over...

Poole: GSE Bailout is "Stopgap", Expects Up to $300 Billion ...more

It will be interesting to see if this dose of cold water from former Fed governor William Poole will take any sizzle...

Robert Reich's Blog: Fannie and Freddie, and Why the Accounting Gimmic...more

Accounting gimmicks first came to light at Fannie and Freddie in 2003, at which time Fannie's and Freddie's former CEOs...

Could Frannie Have Prevented the Housing Bubble?more

Dean Baker is right that the failure of Fannie and Freddie was due to the incentives that being private corporations...

The stealth bailout, illustrated, in close to real timemore

Yves Smith – responding to PIMCO’s Gross — noted that governments, through the increase in their central bank reserves,...

An Historic Day: September 8 2008more

Sentiment regarding Treasury debt had shifted to the very negative as the rescue package was detrimental to treasuries...

Former CFOs to Lead Fannie, Freddiemore

When Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson orchestrated the government's historic takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, he...

Fannie, Freddie Get Tax Pass, Toomore

Wouldn't it be nice if the Internal Revenue Service issued a new tax rule that applied just to your company to help it...

The bailout of Fannie and Freddie: Temporary relief but a real solutio...more

Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson announced over the weekend that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are being placed...

Where were the auditors as Fannie and Freddie circled the drain?more

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC and Deloite & Touche LLP had a ring side seat to the collapse of Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE)...

Five Things You Need to Know: Treating the Symptoms, Ignoring the Dise...more

While the full impact of the nationalization of Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE) is still being sorted out -...

Fannie, Freddie Rescue Not a Cure-Allmore

I recall reading a book back in 2000 written by Ned Davis of Ned Davis Research entitled Being Right or Making Money.

$1.4 trillion of GSE Credit Default Swaps Triggered by Bailoutmore

Putting Freddie and Fannie into conservatorship is a credit event as defined in credit default swaps (note defintions...

Fannie and Freddie Bailout: Initial Thoughts on Firing the Bazookamore

Treasury Secretary Paulson has used the bazooka. Instead of dealing with uncertainty, hated by the market, there is...

Some quick analysis of what the Frannie bailout means more

The bailout looks more generous for the common stock than I would have expected and it is fairly generous to the...

US Bank Exposure to Fannie and Freddie Preferred Stockmore

The table here may be a little difficult to read, but probably worth pasting all the same - the exposure of 40 US...

“Equal-Weight” a Wipeout? The Least Helpful Calls You Will Get Today more

We refer to the inevitable price target reductions and recommendation downgrades of not only the common stock of...

Fed Pushes Fannie, Freddie Shareholders in Front of Trainmore

The effects of this weekend’s dramatic power grab in Washington are rippling through the financial markets - and the...

The Subtle Takeovermore

It’s a weird duck to have these companies remain publicly traded and reporting to the S.E.C.

Pimco's Bill Gross on the Fan/Fred rescue: "We like it"more

Bill Gross, the bond market guru at investment giant Pimco, on the Freddie and Fannie takeover.

Weekend Bailouts and Subsequent Market Reactionsmore

Another Sunday, another bailout, another market reaction. Consider the recent history of these weekend rescues.

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