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Fannie Mae Rental Program DETAILS: Program Will Let Thousands Rent Out Homes To Avoid Foreclosure

AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business


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Brad DeLong: What Would Have Happened If We Didn't Bailout The Bankers?

Project Syndicate | Brad DeLong | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business


It is worth stepping back and asking: What would the world economy look like today if policymakers had acceded to the populist demand of no support to...

States May Sue Banks For Fraud Over Mortgage Crisis

nytimes.com | DAVID STREITFELD and JOHN COLLINS RUDOLF | Posted 11.03.2009 | Business


Frustrated by the banks' inability or unwillingness to stop an avalanche of foreclosures, the states are considering lawsuits over the creation and ma...

Geithner Testimony: New "Too Big To Fail" Legislation Won't Lead To More Bailouts

AP | JIM KUHNHENN and ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON — An Obama administration plan to dissolve large, struggling financial firms rather than bail them out is encountering Republican res...

Divergence, of Course

Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business


Max Fraad Wolff

Despite the excitement over the stock markets, credit markets remain ground zero. They are where defaults destroy fortunes but they are also crucial to US industrial growth.

Concerns Grow About Another Mortgage Giant

nytimes.com | LOUISE STORY | Posted 10.08.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON -- First it was Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Now concern is growing that another government mortgage giant might teeter, just as the nation'...

Skewed Recovery

Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 09.29.2009 | Business


Max Fraad Wolff

Angry masses see the recession as purely financial. This is false. Policy makers have rushed to address the financial crisis. This is near sighted. We have addressed one of our afflictions and left the greater economic problems under-appreciated and unaddressed.

FHA: Federal Housing Authority Low On Cash, High On Leverage

wsj.com | Posted 09.29.2009 | Business


The Treasury has announced new "capital cushion" requirements for financial institutions to reduce excessive risk and prevent taxpayer bailouts. Seems...

Toxic Assets: Government's New Programs Aim To Buy Buy Banks' Bad Assets, Help Home Buyers

Washington Post | Renae Merle and David Cho | Posted 09.29.2009 | Business


The Obama administration is close to rolling out two initiatives aimed at addressing lingering problems from the financial crisis: A long-delayed effo...

401(k) Investing: 8 Zombie Stocks To Avoid

BloggingStocks | Michael Shulman | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business


Right now there are few things scarier than the post-market report on CNBC. It's almost like watching a horror movie. And I've got some zombie stoc...

Mortgage Market: U.S. Government Still Propping Up Real Estate: Newsweek

newsweek.com | Daniel Gross | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business


While the government has pacified the commercial finance, savings, and plain-vanilla banking sectors, it's sending reinforcements into the vast, resti...

Uncle Sam's Not-So-Graceful Exit from Real Estate

Eric Schurenberg | Posted 09.22.2009 | Business


Eric Schurenberg

The Fed and the Treasury have to take the training wheels off the wobbly financial system without tipping it back into chaos.

Financial Crisis Financiers: Where Are They Now? (PHOTOS)

Posted 09.29.2009 | Business


UPDATE: AIG's Joseph Cassano is BACK in U.S. soil. Check out info on his "surprisingly modest" home here. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Well...

Phil Angelides: Financial Crisis Panel To Begin Inquiry

AP | By ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 09.17.2009 | Business


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The Most Damning Internal Emails Of The Financial Crisis (PHOTOS)

Posted 09.14.2009 | Business


In case you haven't heard, emails live forever. Which may mean that the full story of the financial crisis is lying dormant somewhere on a few forgott...

Zombie Companies Haunt Stock Market Rally

Garrett Johnson | Posted 09.08.2009 | Business


Garrett Johnson

Insiders are selling and only speculators are buying. This doesn't sound like a market that the little guy should get involved with.

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Struggle A Year After Takeover

AP | By ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 09.08.2009 | Business


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As U.S. Government Props Up Housing, Taxpayers Are On The Hook For Billions

washingtonpost.com | Zachary A. Goldfarb and Dina ElBoghdady | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business


In the go-go years of the U.S. housing boom, virtually anybody could get a few hundred thousand dollars to buy a home, and private lenders flooded the...

Government Faces Tough Decisions About How To Stabilize Mortgage Market

washingtonpost.com | Zachary A. Goldfarb and Dina ElBoghdady | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business


Only one lender of consequence remains: the federal government, which undertook one of its earliest and most dramatic rescues of the financial crisis ...

NYT: Government Pays Legal Bills For Executives That Defrauded The Government

New York Times | GRETCHEN MORGENSON | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics


As a result of the Fannie takeover, taxpayers are paying millions of dollars in legal defense bills for three top former executives, including Frankli...

Fannie, Freddie Have ‘No Underlying Value': Paul Miller, FBR Capital Markets

bloomberg.com | Dawn Kopecki | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business


Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac fell in New York trading after FBR Capital Market's Paul Miller said the mortgage-finance companies ...

Analysts Mystified By Fannie, Freddie's Surge In Stock Price

The Washington Post | Zachary A. Goldfarb | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business


On Monday, Fannie Mae jumped 41.7 percent, to $1.70 per share, with nearly 824 million shares bought or sold during regular trading hours. Freddie Mac...

Eastern European Cyber Criminals Prey On U.S. Businesses

washingtonpost.com | Brian Krebs | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business


Organized cyber gangs in Eastern Europe are increasingly preying on small and mid-sized companies in the United States, setting off a multi-million do...

Mixing Public and Private Objections

Jim Randel | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics


Jim Randel

Government gets into trouble when it expects private enterprise to do anything other than what its DNA requires: to make as much money as it can.

Fannie Mae Wants Another $10.7B In U.S. Aid After Posting Loss

AP | Alan Zibel, AP Real Estate Writer | Posted 09.07.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fannie Mae plans to tap $11 billion in new government aid after posting another massive quarterly loss as the taxpayer bill from th...