Topic: Freddie Mac Holdings
Information that forced postponement of Rep. Maxine Waters' ethics trial raises new questions about an investigative panel's charges that the California Democrat improperly tried to steer federal bailout money to a minority-owned bank where her husband is a stockholder and former director.. ...
A recently discovered e-mail, which forced postponement of Rep. Maxine Waters' ethics trial, appears to bring the House ethics committee no closer to proving she tried to obtain a U.S. bailout - during the financial crisis - for a bank where her ...
The passage into U.S. law on October 3, 2008, of the $700 billion financial-sector rescue plan is the latest in the long history of U.S. government bailouts that go back to the Panic of 1792, when the federal government bailed out the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Treasury Department has relied heavily on private companies and troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to manage the $700 billion Wall Street bailout, a report released on Thursday said.The report by the congressional panel overseeing the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department has relied heavily on private companies and troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to manage the $700 billion Wall Street bailout, a report released on Thursday said.The report by the congressional panel overseeing ...
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Jim Pethokoukis reports that "it wasn't included in the summer's financial reform bill for fear of scaring away Republican support," but says that it might yet be resuscitated as a way of making up the government's losses on Fannie (FNMA. For the ...
I seem to be the only blogger talking about this, which makes me think either I am ahead of the curve, or more likely making a bonehead error. Last time I wrote on this subject, the eventual cost to the government from ...
In January 2007, when Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid took control of Congress, the unemployment rate was 4.6% and the national debt was $8.6 trillion. Pelosi and Reid have tried to convince voters they inherited all the debt from President Bush, but ...
Most noteworthy paragraph in Hank Paulson's op-ed , in Friday's Washington Post, on what to do about the GSEs: Placing Fannie and Freddie in conservatorship was, in my view, the most effective of the stimulus efforts undertaken in the past two years. ...