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...
View ArticleDerivatives 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...
View ArticleGeithner'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...
View ArticleRisk 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...
View ArticleReflections 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...
View ArticleFannie 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...
View ArticleIs 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...
View ArticleMaking 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...
View Articlee21 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,...
View ArticleRedistributive 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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