U.S. government agency responsible for mortgage insurance
Editors at National Review Online praise one of President Trump’s most recent executive actions. In January, a Trump executive order targeting “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) initiatives repealed racial preferences in…
John Stossel‘s latest column at Human Events focuses on government’s often misguided efforts to help people. Government wants you to think it helps you at every turn. Every time you…
John Stossel has watched this movie before, and he didn’t like the ending the first time around. By “movie,” I mean the collection of government policies that inflated the last…
Gene Epstein reviews for the latest issue of Barron’s an interesting new book about government’s shortcomings. This lively and authoritative account of government failure deserves to be read by advocates…
The FHA has lots and lots of the national debt to spread around, and so it is funding a project that sounds like the adults in a Peanuts cartoon. Bwa…
Earlier this year, the Watauga County TDA turned down a $75,000 FHA grant for canoe and kayak launches. The vote was actually split 2-2 with one member absent. Those opposing…
The recent housing crisis convinced many people that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac caused too many problems to be allowed to continue in their current structure. But as Jim McTague…
Rising housing prices have added more than $1 trillion to the market value of American single-family homes in the past year, prompting homeowners to feel a “wealth effect” that helped…
View in your browser. Is home ownership good for the community and society as a whole? There are many varied opinions on this and the implied benefits individuals and families…
Complaint: Landslides are good for the economy. The recent damage to Highway 441 has caused the FHA to enter into a contract worth $3,989,890 for repairs. The Eastern Tribe of…
Washington gave us the prodigiously wasteful and destructive housing bubble. You might think that the politicians would learn from that and stop meddling in the housing market. But you’d be…
The latest Bloomberg Businessweek details Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan‘s efforts in Congress to help shed more light on the federal government’s true budget risks. According to the Congressional…