HAGERSTOWN, Md. — A fired Fannie Mae contract worker pleaded not guilty Friday to a federal charge he planted a virus designed to destroy all th...
Rep. Dennis Cardoza | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics
American families are losing their homes and I know this problem all too well. It began in my own backyard in California's Central Valley, which has been coined "ground zero" of the housing crisis.
bloomberg.com | Posted 03.25.2009 | Business
Fannie Mae, the largest source of home-loan money in the U.S., said it will need to tap as much as $16 billion in emergency funds from the U.S. Treasu...
Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics
"President Bush tried to rein in Fan and Fred," Rove declares in today's Wall Street Journal. Though in seeking to debunk myths about Bush, Rove creates his own.
Jacki Zehner | Posted 02.02.2009 | Business
It has been over six years since I left Goldman Sachs where I had the honor of working for you. I am sorry that your time serving our great country was not more of a rewarding experience for you.
The American Prospect | Dean Baker | Posted 01.25.2009 | Politics
It's good work if you can get it. The Washington Post reports that Fannie Mae announced its new 10-person board of directors today. The article report...
Bill Allen | Posted 01.22.2009 | Politics
Greenspan said he believed that banks and other financial businesses would act in their own self-interest to protect shareholders and their institutions. He is now in a state of "shocked disbelief."
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 01.22.2009 | Business
Clearly the allegiance of the Republicans who opposed the loan to save GM and Chrysler is not with the US, which would lose 900,000 jobs if just GM closed, and more than 2.1 million if the Big Three did.
Mark Winston Griffith | Posted 01.15.2009 | Business
Tenants who live in homes facing foreclosure are among the most invisible victims of the foreclosure crisis.
Martin Nolan | Posted 01.15.2009 | Media
In 2008, during the biggest financial news story since 1929, the credibility of the Wall Street Journal's ed page coughed, sputtered, and collapsed.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 01.12.2009 | Business
America is suffering. She is, however, afflicted with an avoidable condition she brought on herself, like a hangover. Only this one's interminable and internationally contagious.
Rep. Barney Frank | Posted 01.11.2009 | Business
I am used to having my views severely distorted by the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board, but the opening of this editorial doesn't distort -- it gets the truth absolutely backwards.
New York Post | Posted 03.25.2009 | Business
As finger-pointing escalated in Washington in the search for blame for the housing crisis, at least one ousted mortgage official in the cross hairs sa...
Washington Post | Zachary A. Goldfarb | Posted 03.25.2009 | Business
Internal Freddie Mac documents show that senior executives at the company were warned years ago that they were offering mortgages that could pose dang...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.25.2009 | Business
UPDATE 12/09 at 3:21PM: HuffPost's Marcus Baram reports: Former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines blamed regulators and lawmakers for encouraging the m...
AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 01.09.2009 | Home
WASHINGTON — Three months after the government seized control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, lawmakers on Tuesday blamed former top executives a...
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 03.25.2009 | Business
Congress cannot let the Jeep die in bankruptcy. Congress must not fail the U.S. auto industry. Doing so would be abandoning the core of the American economy -- manufacturing.
Alan Schram | Posted 03.26.2009 | Business
The Treasury's policy did nothing to build confidence or stabilize the markets. The precipitous drop of the equity markets in October and November are the market's judgment on their policies.
AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 12.21.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — Mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are suspending foreclosures for about 16,000 households during the holiday se...
Jim Randel | Posted 12.18.2008 | Business
One good thing (perhaps the only good thing) coming out of the current financial meltdown is that I no longer have to listen to the self-serving hy...
Graciela Chichilnisky | Posted 12.18.2008 | Business
The true root cause of the financial crisis starts with the continued defaults on mortgages that magnify and snowball throughout the entire financial system.
Lanny Davis | Posted 12.18.2008 | Business
Without lobbyists, government could not function efficiently and perhaps not at all, going all the way back to George Washington.
Mark Winston Griffith | Posted 12.13.2008 | Business
Think of it this way. The American homeowner is underwater and drowning, and Fannie and Freddie have just thrown in a spool of thread to pull them out.
AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 03.26.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Once again, the government has offered another plan to help troubled homeowners. Once again, critics say it doesn't go far enough. ...
AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 03.26.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Once again, the government has offered another plan to help troubled homeowners. Once again, critics say it doesn't go far enough. ...
AP | DAVID DISHNEAU | Posted 03.02.2009 | Business