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The Fannie and Freddie Bailout Continues: Do They Now Need $800 Billion?

Click here for a printer-friendly version of this article According to the New York Times, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are in negotiations with the Treasury to increase their credit lines from $200...

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Derivatives Reform: Margin Requirements Rather than Divestiture

Click here for a printer-friendly version of this articleBlanche Lincoln’s victory in the Arkansas primary pushed a new dichotomy into our political lexicon. In the race’s final days, she boldly...

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Geithner's Exit Plan for Fannie & Freddie

If we could go back in time, decades ago we would have phased out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — the two government controlled housing finance agencies — allowing for a wholly private secondary market...

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Risk Retention: Cracks in the GSE Reform Coalition

Earlier this week, the American Banker published an article on an emerging deal between all the key banking and finance regulators that could have a big impact on whether the future of housing finance...

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Reflections on Barney Frank’s Legacy

Now that former House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank has announced that he will retire from Congress at the end of next year, policy analysts can begin to access the legacy of one...

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Fannie and Freddie's Huge Profits Raise Questions for Future of Mortgage Finance

Click here for a printer-friendly version of this article.Never have the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) dominated the U.S. mortgage market as they do today. Through June 2012, the GSEs (Fannie...

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Is it Fannie and Freddie’s Turn to Bailout the U.S. Treasury?

As e21 first pointed out last October, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are extremely profitable. The cash flow relationship between the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) and the Federal Government has...

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Making Government “Profits” Appear and Disappear: Student Loans vs. Fannie...

Official Congressional Budget Office estimates show that the federal student loan program will earn $184 billion for taxpayers in the next 11 years—about 13 cents for every dollar lent out. Those...

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e21 Asks: Privatizing or Eliminating Government Programs

This week, we gave readers four choices of government programs, and asked them to pick one to eliminate or privatize. The Department of Education was the most popular candidate for elimination,...

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Redistributive Credit Policies Won't Fix Inequality

Teaser: Mel Watt, Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, recently announced that he will reduce the minimum mortgage down payment requirement for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – the housing...

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