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The Future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Bonds

Both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were at the heart of the credit crisis, and their bonds, including Agency Debt and Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS), [...] read more »
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Freddie Asks $30.8 Billion More for Foreclosures

Freddie Mac has asked the U.S. Treasury for an additional funding of $30.8 billion to enable it to continue carrying out its mission of helping avert[...] read more »
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Freddie (Mac) Gets Fingered: To blame for Wall Street's collapse?

According to this Associated Press story, the mortgage giant Freddie Mac paid a Republican consulting firm $2M to kill legislation against it (regula[...] read more »
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Bernanke discusses future of Fannie and Freddie

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Friday that the federal government will need to continue to play a role in the future of the mortgage fina[...] read more »
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Ex-Officer Faults Mortgage Giants for ‘Orgy’ of Nonprime Loans

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac engaged in “an orgy of junk mortgage development” that turned the two mortgage-finance giants into vast repositories of su[...] read more »
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Freddie Seeks Up to $35 Billion From U.S.; Fannie May Follow

Jan. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Freddie Mac, the mortgage-finance company under federal control, needs as much as $35 billion more in federal aid, and Fannie [...] read more »
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Moffett resigning as Freddie Mac CEO

The top executive of Freddie Mac is quitting after less than six months on the job as the company continues to hemorrhage from mortgage losses and pl[...] read more »
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Warnings saw loan problems at Freddie, Fannie: report

Documents show that top executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were warned years ago that the firms were offering mortgages that could pose a long-[...] read more »
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Freddie Mac Offers Foreclosed Properties as Rentals

Freddie Mac has started offering renters and previous owners of foreclosure homes the option of staying as renters on a monthly basis. There are othe[...] read more »
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Market News Live: Video: CFO of mortgage giant dead, suicide suspected

David Kellermann, the acting chief financial officer of mortgage giant Freddie Mac, was found dead at his home in Reston, Va. in what police said was[...] read more »
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Despite Wall Street's scorn, speculators don't give much ground

From Tom Petruno's Money & Company blog in the Los Angeles Times:
Some speculators finally bailed out of shares of American International Group, [...] read more »
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Foreclosure Prevention Program

How Foreclosure Prevention Program can help americans read more »
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