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19 hrs ago | Boston Herald

Renting homes back to foreclosed owners

"This new program helps eliminate some of the uncertainty of foreclosure, keeps families and tenants in their homes during a transitional period and helps to stabilize neighborhoods and communities," Fannie Mae's Jay Ryan said in unveiling a new "Deed for Lease Program" earlier this month.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Sat Nov 21, 2009

The US Market Blog

Liquidity, The OTC Market and TBTF Banks

I've been thinking a lot about what kinds of benefits we enjoy from having large banks.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Financial Services

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Free Republic

10 Reasons to Believe That We're in a Depression

As the economy drifts listlessly going into this holiday season, thoughts of sugar-plumbed call options and zombie companies , Freddie Mac , and Citibank ) are dancing in the heads of day traders, fund managers and CNBC.

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Related Topix: Freddie Mac, Financial Services, Day Trading, 9, Financial Markets

Thu Nov 19, 2009

BusinessWeek

What's Next for Mortgage Rates?

You already know that what the Federal Reserve does with interest rates has a huge impact on the housing market .

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Housing, Financial Markets, Freddie Mac, Financial Services

Manila Bulletin

Corporate governance and ethics

"In the next century, a company will stand or fall on its values," Robert Hass, CEO of Levi Strauss was quoted to have said.

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Related Topix: Corporate Governance, Investment Banking, Lehman Brothers Holdings, Financial Services, Investment Services, Bear Stearns

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Forbes

Renting From Fannie

The firm is letting foreclosed upon families experiencing rent their homes. Is this delaying the inevitable or helping the housing situation? Homeowners going through foreclosure can rent their houses through Fannie Mae rather than lose them entirely.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance

International Business Times

BofA ex-counsel says "stunned" by firing

According to congressional testimony obtained by Reuters on Monday, Mayopoulos' firing on December 10, 2008 came just nine days after he told Bank of America executives that Merrill's expected losses at the time provided no basis to invoke a contractual provision to abandon the takeover.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Banking, Bank of America, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Mon Nov 16, 2009

USA Today

Freddie Mac stock is cheap for a reason

Q: Would you invest in Freddie Mac ? A: Many investors, it seems, can't resist what appears to be a deal.

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Related Topix: Freddie Mac, Financial Services, Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Sat Nov 14, 2009

The US Market Blog

Isn't the Fed Monetizing Housing Debt?

In reading the newspapers over the last eight months, since the Federal Reserve decided to print money on a massive scale in order to buy $300 billion in U.S. Treasuries along with about a trillion and a half dollars in mortgage related debt, these two groups of purchases have been viewed quite differently.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, World News, Germany, Freddie Mac, Financial Services, Financial Markets

Fri Nov 13, 2009

Netscape

How ACORN destroyed the housing market | Washington Examiner

Over at the Wall Street Journal, there's a very interesting article that connects the dots between ACORN, the mortgage-lending-standard-destroying Community Reinvestment Act legislation, Fannie Mae and the eventual inflation and collapse of the housing bubble in last decade: As Allen Fishbein, currently an adviser for consumer policy at the Federal ...

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Financial Services, Foreclosures

Gainesville.com The Gainesville Sun G...

Housing Agency x2019 s Cash Reserves Down Sharply

Published: Friday, November 13, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 13, 2009 at 5:09 a.m. The Federal Housing Administration, the government agency whose loan-insurance programs have become a crucial source of support for the housing market, said on Thursday that its cash reserves had dwindled significantly in the last year as more ...

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Housing, Foreclosures, Financial Services

Thu Nov 12, 2009

Bloomberg

Fannie, Freddie Overseer Slot Vacant for 15 Months; Obama Needs More Time

Filling a 15-month vacancy for inspector general of the agency overseeing Fannie Mae , Freddie Mac and the Federal Home Loan Banks will take more time and be done a oeas soon as possible,a the Obama administration said.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, US News, US Politics, Republican, US House of Representatives, Darrell Issa, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, George Bush

Seeking Alpha

It's the Subprime Fiasco All Over Again

I really thought we had all paid our dues on this subprime mortgage fiasco by the big hit we all took in our investments in banks, securities firms, CMOs and mortgaged back bonds.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Financial Markets, Financial Services, Freddie Mac, Housing

Tue Nov 10, 2009

SF Gate

Legitimized leasebacks picking up momentum

Once it seemed like a radical idea: Let delinquent borrowers stay in their homes as renters after foreclosure.

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Related Topix: Foreclosures, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Barney Frank, Democrat, Business News

Myrtle Beach Online

Housing plan helps 20 pct in Calif, Nev., Ariz.

The Obama administration's plan to combat the foreclosure crisis has reached about 20 percent of troubled homeowners in the states most affected by the housing meltdown, according to data being released Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Foreclosures, US News, US Treasury, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Financial Services, Entertainment

Boston Globe

Fannie Mae studies write-down

Fannie Mae is reviewing whether it will have to write down $5.2 billion in low-income housing tax credits after the US Treasury rejected its request to sell the investments, the mortgage-finance company said yesterday.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Investment Banking, Investment Services, Goldman Sachs Group, Arlington, VA

Mon Nov 09, 2009

ABC News

Fannie Mae Tax Credit Decision Could Cost $5.2 Bln

Fannie Mae said Monday it may have to ask the government for more financial assistance because the company cannot sell $5.2 billion in tax credits.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Investment Banking, Goldman Sachs Group, Investment Services

Seeking Alpha

Accounting for Losses at BofA and Fannie

Via Yves Smith , John Hempton analyzes the quarterly results of Bank of America and Fannie Mae .

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Bank of America, Banking

Sun Nov 08, 2009

Moonbattery

$15 Billion More Down the Fannie Mae Hole?

Embattled mortgage lender Fannie Mae said Thursday after posting a third-quarter net loss that it has asked the U.S. Treasury Department for an additional $15 billion in assistance by the end of the year.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Sat Nov 07, 2009

TownHall.com

Freddie Mac posts $5 billion loss

Freddie Mac , the second largest provider of U.S. residential mortgage funding, on Friday posted a loss of $5 billion in the third quarter and predicted it would need more government support amid a "prolonged deterioration" in housing.

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Related Topix: Freddie Mac, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance

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