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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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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...

Was Goldman Worth Saving? Reuters

Reuters | Rolfe Winkler | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business


Thirty-three TARP recipients missed a scheduled dividend payment to taxpayers last month, according to the Treasury Department, including 18 banks tha...

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'...

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.

Phil Angelides: Financial Crisis Panel To Begin Inquiry

AP | By ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 09.17.2009 | Business


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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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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...

Obama Administration Considers Splitting Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac

washingtonpost.com | Zachary A. Goldfarb and David Cho | Posted 09.05.2009 | Business


The Obama administration launched a broad government effort this week to overhaul mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and is considering splitt...

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Unlikely To Return Bailout Money

Washington Post | Zachary A. Goldfarb | Posted 08.31.2009 | Business


The regulator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac said it was unlikely that the federal government would ever be paid back the entire $85 billion spent so f...

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Are Most Costly Bailouts

Jul. 22, 2009 | Chris Isidore, CNNMoney.Com Senior Writer | Posted 08.23.2009 | Business


NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The first big government bailout of the financial crisis -- the takeover of mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie ...

Obama Punting On Fannie, Freddie Could Prove Costly

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Ben Protess | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics


Facing an array of more immediate financial problems, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has pushed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac towards the bottom of ...

Only the News That's Fit to Print

Erica Payne | Posted 07.24.2009 | Media


Erica Payne

The New York Times did the country (and itself) a disservice Sunday when it printed all 5,000 words of Devin Leonard's piece on William Gross.

Fox Nation: The Seedy Underbelly of Rupert Murdoch's Evil Empire?

Karl Frisch | Posted 07.03.2009 | Media


Karl Frisch

In the two months that followed the website's launch, The Fox Nation has displayed an uncanny ability to mislead readers, twist the truth, spread wild conspiracy theories, and misrepresent the reporting of legitimate journalists.

Our Loss is BlackRock's Gain

Robert Scheer | Posted 06.19.2009 | Business


Robert Scheer

How much do you know about the BlackRock hedge fund? Better bone up fast, now that the folks at BlackRock are calling the shots in the government's trillion-dollar bailout program.

Congresswoman Maxine Waters Gives President Obama An "A"

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics


Kathleen Wells, J.D.

He inherited a horrible situation with this economic crisis, but he has not flinched. And his confidence inspires us and helps to generate confidence because we see him carrying on.

Freddie Mac To Tap $6.1 Billion More In Treasury Capital

AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 06.12.2009 | Home


WASHINGTON — Mortgage giant Freddie Mac is looking for $6.1 billion in additional government aid as the cost to taxpayers from the housing marke...