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FHA Bailout: Federal Housing Agency Has Lowest Amount Of Cash On Record

bloomberg.com | Dawn Kopecki | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Federal Housing Administration, Foreclosures, Bailout, Fha, Mortgage Crisis, Mortgage Defaults, David H. Stevens, FHA Baulout, Housing and Urban Development, Shaun Donovan, Business News

Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Housing Administration's mortgage insurance reserves fell to the lowest level in history and the government said mo...

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FHA: The Next Housing Bubble? Lawmakers Worry Agency Is Creating Another Boom

latimes.com | Jim Puzzanghera | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business

Read More: FHA Loans, Federal Housing Administration, Mortgages, Fha, Home Prices, Housing Bubble, Real Estate, Mortgage Crisis, Business News

Reporting from Washington - In the wake of the mortgage meltdown, the Federal Housing Administration has emerged as a pillar of the still wobbly housi...

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Concerns Grow About Another Mortgage Giant

nytimes.com | LOUISE STORY | Posted 10.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Federal Housing Administration, Mortgages, Freddie Mac, Bailout, FHA Loans, Fha, Loans, Taxpayer Money, Mortgage Loans, Fannie Mae, Government Loans, David H. Stevens, Business News

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

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Home Loans Brokered By Nonprofits Helped Fuel The Housing Crisis

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Jeff Horwitz and Dave Jamieson | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Federal Housing Administration, Fha, Ann Ashburn, Beazer Homes, Ameridream, Nonprofits, Home Loans, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Business News

Before the housing boom got underway in the late 1990s, a California nonprofit group hatched an idea to help families who qualified for government-bac...

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

wsj.com | Posted 09.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Freddie Mac, Treasury Department, Fha, Fannie Mae, Economy, Federal Housing Authority, Real Estate, Leverage, Capital Cushions, Uncle Sam, Subrpime, Business News

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

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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

Read More: Mortgages, Housing Boom, Fha, Freddie Mack, Fannie Mae, Subprime, Home Loans, Business News

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...

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Government Faces Tough Decisions About How To Stabilize Mortgage Market

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

Read More: Finance, Fha, Freddie Mac, Banks, Mortgages, The Fed, Fannie Mae, Federal Housing Authority, Lending, Housing Crisis, Economy, Refinancing, Business News

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

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Republicans' 4% Mortgage "Stimulus" Is Latest Ponzi Scheme

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fha, Depression, Melvin Oliver, Sec, Mitch McConnell, Housing, New Deal, Social Security, Black Wealth White Wealth, Stimulus, Black, Republican First Principles, Mortgage Crisis, Redlining, Eugencis, Wealth, Predatory Lending, African American, Loans, Ponzi Scheme, Construction, Subprime, Bernie Madoff, Rush Limbaugh, Obama, Media, Politics, Bailout, Economy, Race, White House, Financial Crisis, Bignews, Paulson, Foreclosure Crisis, Credit Score, Great Depression, Credit Rating Agencies, Freddie Mac, 4% Morgage, Fanie Mae, Politics News
Ronald B. Robinson

Does the Republican ploy to provide 4% home mortgages to boost the economy sound too good to be true? It is. Buyer Beware!

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FHA-Backed Loans: The New Subprime

BusinessWeek | Chad Terhune and Robert Berner | Posted 12.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Subprime Crisis, Subprime Mortgages, FHA Loans, Fha, Wall Street Crisis, Business News

As if they haven't done enough damage. Thousands of subprime mortgage lenders and brokers--many of them the very sorts of firms that helped create the...

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Critics say new federal mortgage plan not enough

AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 03.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Homeowner Aid, Mortgages, Fha, Freddie Mac, Finance, Economy, Financial Crisis, Fannie Mae, Streamlined Modification Program, Mortgage Crisis, Bailout Outrage, Business News

WASHINGTON — Once again, the government has offered another plan to help troubled homeowners. Once again, critics say it doesn't go far enough. ...

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But, Will The New Law Work?

Jim Randel | Posted 08.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Appraisers, American Rescue and Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008, President Bush, New Fixed Rate-Loan, Fha, Federal Refinance Program, Economy, Business News
Jim Randel

If after all the debate and turmoil the new foreclosure law only works "on paper," a lot of people will have wasted a lot of time and effort for nothing.

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