Month: March 2015

By WILLIAM M. ISAAC March 31, 2015 6:51 p.m. ET 1 COMMENTS The Inspector General for the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) recently reported that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac…

nealsnewmanssaid My rough notes from today’s joint status conference. Not exactly verbatim unless quotation marks used. SWEENEY: let me start with a public service announcement. The court was troubled to…

summary of my perspective: not yet, but solid idea a few things, mostly regarding timing and right now i think the timing is bad although i think that in 5…

LETTER http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/03/27/opinion/cause-of-financial-crisis.html?_r=0&referrer Cause of Financial Crisis MARCH 27, 2015 To the Editor: There is a reason that Peter Wallison’s “passion” to rewrite the history of the 2008 financial crisis is…

congresspeople above is the link to the file.   download it, copy and paste three rows at a time into twitter at your own peril .. i’m not advising it,…

http://www.freddiemac.com/blog/docs/layton_mba_summary.pdf “As a result of a lot of hard work and, in truth, favorable markets, we have achieved what some thought impossible: we have dividended back to the taxpayer more…

(Bloomberg) — Senator Richard Shelby’s declaration Wednesday that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will likely remain in U.S. conservatorship shifts the task of reducing taxpayer mortgage risk mostly to one…

At a time when the housing market is just beginning to recover, the U.S. Treasury wants to close down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two GSEntities under government conservatorship.…

Step 1: How do we create a funding piggy bank that we can raid and use to spend on special projects, evading budget scrutiny? Step 2: Nationalize the world’s most…

I look forward to you shutting up and eating your words and perhaps being let go, because your perpetuation of nonsensical nationalization propaganda is baseless expropriation of private property. You have…