A ban on foreclosure sales and evictions from houses owned by mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which began as a high-profile effort just be...
Greg Mitchell | Posted 04.27.2009 | Media
Somehow Jon Stewart missed perhaps the most damning Jim Cramer clip of all from the CNBC archives.
ProPublica | Posted 04.25.2009 | Business
Freddie Mac introduced a loan modification pilot program, but it outsourced the job to a subprime loan servicer with a history of customer dissatisfaction and run-ins with the federal government.
Howard Schweber | Posted 04.18.2009 | Business
Lately the torches-and-pitchforks voices have begun to drown out serious discussion. Time to take a deep breath or two: populist rage is a rotten basis for policy-making.
AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 04.11.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Freddie Mac, facing mounting damage from the U.S. housing crisis, said Wednesday it will ask the government for nearly $31 billion ...
New York Times | CHARLES DUHIGG | Posted 04.02.2009 | Business
Despite assurances that the takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would be temporary, the giant mortgage companies will most likely never fully retur...
AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 04.02.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — The top executive of Freddie Mac is quitting after less than six months on the job as the company continues to hemorrhage from mort...
Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics
Mr. President, help us create "a more perfect Union" from the "bottom-up." You can be the Lincoln of our times and free us from the greed and "top-down" bondage that has brought us here.
Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
Does the Republican ploy to provide 4% home mortgages to boost the economy sound too good to be true? It is. Buyer Beware!
AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 03.02.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Mortgage finance company Freddie Mac said it will allow some borrowers to rent out their homes after losing them to foreclosure. T...
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.
AP | Posted 03.25.2009 | Business
McLEAN, Va. — Mortgage finance company Freddie Mac said Friday it will need an additional $30 billion to $35 billion in government aid as it cop...
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.
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.
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 01.14.2009 | Politics
President Bush and his henchmen are working overtime to ensure that the full extent of damage inflicted upon detainees never sees the light of day.
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...
Wall Street Journal | TOM LAURICELLA | Posted 01.10.2009 | Business
William H. Miller spent nearly two decades building his reputation as the era's greatest mutual-fund manager. Then, over the past year, he destroyed i...
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...
Washington Independent | Posted 05.03.2009 | Politics