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Editors at National Review Online urge the Trump administration to avoid a major mistake with federal housing policy. The Trump administration wants an IPO for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac…
That’s a line from a recent blogpost by consitutional scholar Randy Barnett. Here’s another excerpt: Columbia Law School Professor Philip Hamburger has an important essay this weekend on the Wall…
As many as 20 rural hospitals in North Carolina could soon see relief from impending insolvency, according to a recent story written by Carolina Journal’s Dan Way. Way reports: The…
Julie, I posted that advertisement a while back to contrast that history with the only-government-builds-that, massively expensive folly of the Obama administration. Namely their “innovation institutes,” including one at NC…
Thomas Donlan warns in his latest Barron’s editorial commentary that policymakers appear to have learned little from the last financial crisis. Eight years after the walls of finance cracked, nothing…
Michael Barone‘s latest column at Human Events projects potential long-term negative consequences of current government policies. What caused the financial crisis? How can we prevent another one from happening again?…
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 of the Washington Free Beacon explores the prospects for reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in a Congress run by Republicans. A Republican-led Congress will likely be…
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…