More...
 

Freddie

Fannie, Freddie: Too Big To Shrink

AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 12.31.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgages, Treasury Department, Freddie Mac, Fannie, Bailout, Freddie, Too Big to Shrink, Mortgage Rates, Fannie Mae, Business News

WASHINGTON — The government's Christmas Eve pledge of unlimited financial aid to mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is aimed at making s...

Read Whole Story

Fannie, Freddie Stock Prices Soar On Announcement Of Government's Blank Check Support

Posted 12.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Treasury Department, Freddie Mac, Fannie, Freddie, Fannie Mae, Fannie Freddie Stock Price, Gse, Government-Sponsored-Entities, Blank Check, Business News

Call it a Christmas gift for the mortgage giants. Shares of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were up big yesterday on the Treasury Department's Christmas...

Read Whole Story

Fannie, Freddie Pay: Execs' Multi-Million Dollar Salaries REVEALED

AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 12.24.2009 | Business

Read More: CEO Pay, Freddie Mac, Fannie Freddie Executives, Fannie, Freddie, Ed Haldeman, Fannie Mae, Pay Czar, Gses, Kenneth Feinberg, Government-Sponsored-Entities, Michael Williams, Business News

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators plan to disclose Thursday that the top executives of government-controlled mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae...

Read Whole Story

Bailed-Out Banks Making Profits -- For Taxpayers

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: President Obama, Bail Out, Troubled Asset Relief Program, Obama, Fannie, Taxpayer, Bush, Government, Deficit, Aig, Bailout, General Motors, Insurance, Interest, Toxic Mortgage, Bank, President Bush, Tarp, Wall St, Gm, Budget, Barack Obama, Invest, Executive Compensation, Chrysler, Profits, Profit, Wall Street, Investment, Chris Weigant, Companies, Return, Investment Firms, Freddie, Banks, George W Bush, Auto, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Money wasn't just "given" to Wall Street firms. It bought something of value. And now that the firms (and the market in general) are recovering, they're starting to pay it back. With interest.

Read Post

Democrats and Republicans Made The Mortgage Crisis -- Quit The Blame Game

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Congressional Democrats, John McCain, Fannie, Bailout, Senate Republicans, Bill Clinton, Freddie, Sanford Weill, Fannie Mae Freddie Mac Bailout, Bob Rubin, Barack Obama, Financial Meltdown, Glass-Steagall, Mortgage Crisis, Politics News
Stephen C. Rose

By Stephen C. Rose There are two key pieces of evidence in the maelstrom we are now calling a meltdown -- but which began with a mortgage crisis. The...

Read Post

Watershed Moment

Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 10.12.2008 | Business

Read More: International Politics, Politics, Middle Class Pain, Economy, Middle Class, Freddie, Fannie, Business News
Max Fraad Wolff

The teetering state of the mortgage markets and the $4.6-$4.9 trillion position of Fannie and Freddie placed the GSE at the center of these crises.

Read Post

Behind the Costly Fannie/Freddie Mortgage Bailout

Danny Schechter | Posted 10.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Gulf States, Palin, Debt, Obama, Mccain, Investments, Foreign Money, Freddie, Fannie, Fannie Mae, Fannie Mae Freddie Mac Bailout, Business News
Danny Schechter

In a globalized entangled and interconnected economy, no region can expect not to be impacted when the world's number one economy goes south.

Read Post