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MBA turkeys and the market
in Sox First, on November 8, 2009
...er Henry Paulson, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission Christopher Cox, former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines and his successor Daniel Mudd and of course, everyone's favorite and ...
The phoney bull market
in Sox First, on September 24, 2009
...ert Reich explains why in his blog . The government has pushed its way into the market, buying up Fannie and Freddie's paper. With the US Government planning to expand health coverage for millio...
The next bubbles
in Sox First, on September 12, 2009
... snapping up $1.25 trillion of mortgage backed securities; the prices of junk financial stocks like Fannie, Freddie, AIG, Citi and Bank of America getting pushed up in the rush to buy cheap; education...
The US consumer economy is dead
in Sox First, on September 9, 2009
... argues, the consumer economy is dead, all starting in September 2008 when the US government seized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. Hall writes: "One year la...
US mortgages underwater
in Sox First, on August 7, 2009
...US Government is considering plans to take hundreds of billions of dollars in troubled loans out of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, stick them into a so-called "bad bank" and create a new struct...
Did Sonia Sotomayor's mortgage views help send county into recession?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 23, 2009
...oor and on the federal agencies that tried to get them into homes.
Their reasoning goes like this: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, along with other advocacy groups, pushed to get lower-income residents m...
Internal threats alive and well
in The CIO Weblog, on February 3, 2009
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As if Fannie Mae weren't already having enough troubles, it seems that at the height (depth?) of the credit market implosion late last year it was also suffering an insidious threat from within...
Fixing the financial system
in Sox First, on January 12, 2009
...r or to the borrower for certain types of socially desirable loans, making it more sustainable than Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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The hypocrisy of Bush
in Sox First, on November 14, 2008
...t; This is from someone whose Government bailed out American International Group, Bear Stearns and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, ultimately nationalising them, in moves that completely ignored free mar...
One Version of How the Meltdown Happened
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 20, 2008
...ding the Community Reinvestment Act, the CRA, required two large government sponsored enterprises, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to buy those lower quality mortgages from the banks, guarantee them, and ...
Commentary: Bailouts will lead to rough economic ride
in Fastweblogs - Test Blog, on 24.09.08
...ed numerous programs to encourage homebuilding and homeownership.
Government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were able to obtain a monopoly position in the mortgage market, especiall...
Another day, another bailout
in Sox First, on September 18, 2008
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Just days after Fannie Mae-Freddie Mac nationalisation, something I covered in my blog here , the US Government continues down this direction taking out nearly 80 per cent of AIG for $85 billio...
Lehman Brothers: the canary in the coal mine
in Sox First, on September 10, 2008
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How quick was that? The rally in stocks following the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac didn't last that long after after the Korean Development Bank confirmed it had ended talks to resc...
Fannie and Freddie fallout
in Sox First, on September 9, 2008
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So The Dow Jones gained nearly 300 points on the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Don't expect the party to last. Home loans are being foreclosed more than ever, growing at their ...
The Fannie and Freddie band-aid
in Sox First, on September 8, 2008
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Now that the Kremlin, sorry, Bush administration has nationalised Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, we've seen equities soaring and a rally in bond spreads . But how will this affect US hou...
FASB delays the inevitable
in Sox First, on August 4, 2008
...s losing their shirts. Think of the hundreds of billions that Citigroup has off its books. Think of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The FASB has decided to delay it after pressure from US corporates and ...
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac fallout - the questions continue
in Sox First, on July 15, 2008
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The bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Max continue to raise questions. The US government's plan to rescue Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac got the initial tick. The big investors supported a $US3...
Fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: the world waits
in Sox First, on July 14, 2008
...l out of Bear Stearns. But the US Treasury and US Federal Reserve rescue plan for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae is much more serious and problematic. Bear Stearns was just a badly-run bank that ignored...
财富杂志公布 2008 全球 500 强
in Wangtam, on 2008-07-11
美国《财富》杂志 昨日公布 了 2008 年全球 500 强排行榜，沃尔玛以 3787.99 亿美元年销售额蝉联榜首，中石化排名第 16 位。
按照 2007 年销售额排名，排名前十的企业依次是：沃尔玛、美国埃克森美孚石油公司、英荷壳牌石油公司、英国石油公司、丰田汽车公司、美国雪佛龙石油公司、荷兰国际集团、法国道达尔石油公司、美国通用汽车公司和美国康菲石油公司。
中国内地和香港上榜企业从去年的 24 家增至 29 家，其中中石化以 1592.6 亿美元的年销售额排名第 16 位，成为排名最靠前的中国企业。
Freddie Mac's accounting tricks fool investors
in Sox First, on May 15, 2008
... end of the year, but everyone knows that Congress will do anything to keep them afloat, because if Fannie and Freddie go under, the entire global financial system will melt down. These companies'...
Will Bernanke's rescue plan work?
in Sox First, on March 13, 2008
So the market has rallied on Ben Bernanke's latest rescue plan. The Fed is says it will lend $200 billion of Treasuries to the securities firms that trade directly with the central bank in return for mortgage debt . And it might escalate if need be. This raises two questions. What do...
Kredit-Bumerang erwischt hilflose Hausbesitzer und ihre Geldgeber
in Das Börsen Weblog, on 25.02.08
...e Hypothekenkrise lässt die Wall Street nicht los. Nun rät Merrill Lynch sogar, die Papiere von fannie mae und Freddie Mac zu verkaufen. Die Qualität der von den beiden halbstaatlichen Hypothek...
President Bush' Economic Stimulus Package
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on January 28, 2008
...g mortgage. Banks, knowing that they can possibly repackage these jumbo loans and sell them back to Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, might now be willing to refinance at lower rates."
Horan added tha...
Fannie Mae: more of the lawyers' picnic
in Sox First, on April 25, 2007
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At the end of last year I looked at how the Fannie Mae scandal had turned into litigation city with the mortgage giant suing its auditor KPMG and regulators going for the group's former lead...
It's Not Easy Being Green
in On Storage, on March 17, 2007
...ompanies, proper use (and often, ingenious use) of resources has the data storage industry buzzing. Fannie Mae and Highmark have met the standards of the US Green building code Council, the onl...
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 15
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on January 8, 2007
...o buy 30 million shares (adjusted for a subsequent split) of Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), which would have been a $350-$400 million investment. We had owned the
stock some year...
Top 10 business shenanigans for 2006
in Sox First, on December 25, 2006
What a year it's been! The stories have just kept coming, and certainly kept me busy here. Scandals and litigation have all been part of the mix covered by Sox First this year. And Governments and business are copping plenty of heat to lift their game. And it's now coming from all Quar...
Fannie Mae now a lawyers' picnic
in Sox First, on December 19, 2006
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As expected, Fannie Mae has turned into litigation city with the regulators now suing the mortgage giant's former leaders over their role in the multibillion dollar accounting scandal at the...
KPMG sued for bad numbers on Fannie Mae
in Sox First, on December 16, 2006
...ting liability caps is likely to get louder with news that troubled US mortgage finance company Fannie Mae is suing former auditor KPMG for $2 billion. Fannie Mae's financial woes surfaced th...
Hedge funds, politicians and insider trading
in Sox First, on December 9, 2006
...ip of US ports and corporate tax legislation. Will Congress for example approve new regulations for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Which airline will win from the Transportation Department a new d...
Corporate governance turkeys of the year
in Sox First, on November 23, 2006
Yes, it's that time of year to nominate the biggest turkeys since last November. This year's list is extensive. There's no shortage of candidates so I thought better list them all and let you decide.
Where are next scandals coming from?
in Sox First, on October 11, 2006
... I did an entry on where the next Enron was going to come from. Hedge funds, options trickery and Fannie Mae-style accounting shenanigans were put up as possible danger areas. Another guide to futu...
Happy Birthday SOX
in Sox First, on July 31, 2006
... law's co-author, US House Financial Services Committee Chairman Michael Oxley, has cited the Fannie Mae disaster as an example that shows the need for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and has blamed t...
Looking for the next Enron
in Sox First, on May 29, 2006
In the new york times over the weekend, Gretchen Morgenson came out with the rhetorical question Are Enrons Bustin' Out All Over .
What have we learned from Enron?
in Sox First, on May 26, 2006
That's the Question that's been asked since the jurors brought down the guilty verdict for Lay and Skilling.
Fannie Mae's flim-flam flayed
in Sox First, on May 26, 2006
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The blogosphere and commentary zone are buzzing with the news how Fannie Mae's Franklin Raines, the now-deposed chairman and chief executive of the home mortgage giant, secured more t...
Accounting and shell games
in Sox First, on March 16, 2006
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So Fannie Mae is again embroiled in serious accounting Doodoo . And remember Berkshire Hathaway's exposure to General Re's derivatives business which in last year's pullout, cost Berk...
Is Housing A Bubble?
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on April 18, 2005
... don't more of us stop to read it? Hey, this is the "ownership society" and thanks to Fannie and Freddie we all own homes. It's too depressing to think about losing a chunk of our pa...