Daniel Wiser reports for the Washington Free Beacon on plans from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to step up risky low-down-payment mortgage loans. Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Mel…
Daniel Wiser reports for the Washington Free Beacon about a great way to trim the federal government’s fat. Reducing government subsidies to housing giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could…
Daniel Wiser reports for the Washington Free Beacon disturbing reports surrounding Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Critics warn that government agencies are making the same mistakes that led to the…
Former FDIC chair Sheila Bair devotes a column in the latest Fortune magazine to the topic of getting rid of two of the key players in the housing market collapse.…
Given the role Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac played in the recent housing collapse, Jonathan Laing‘s latest cover story in Barron’s offers at least some comfort. The recent news from…
If you realize just how big a role Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac played in the Great Recession, you’ll likely find Shawn Tully’s latest Fortune magazine article disturbing. On the…
One might have thought that the recent American housing collapse would have united policymakers and analysts around the goal of getting the government as far away from Fannie Mae and…
NYT reports: The huge profits rolling in at Fannie, and at its corporate sibling Freddie Mac, reflect the enormous role the government is playing in the housing market nearly five…
Rep. Mel Watt is under consideration to lead the regulator of mortgage-finance firms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Wall Street Journal reports: …Mr. Watt was among a handful of…
Washington Times editorial page editor Brett Decker recently interviewed BB&T former chairman and CEO John Allison. Here’s a highlight: Government policy is the primary cause of the financial crisis. The…
The Heritage Foundation argues here that the way to end the housing crisis is to abolish two of the primary instigators of the housing bubble, Fannie and Freddie. Instead, it…
Cato scholar Mark Calabria argues in this paper that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two giant “government sponsored enterprises” that came to dominate the mortgage market ought to be…