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Agency Mortgage Bonds are RICH

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:17:04 +0000

Bloomberg (via Calculated Risk ) details Meredith Whitney's latest concern: The Federal Reserve has begun slowing purchases in the $5 trillion market for so-called agency mortgage-backed securities after announcing in September that it would extend the timeline for its $1.25 trillion program ...

Abnormal Returns found this 37 hours ago on econompicdata.blogspot.com

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New fed housing program involves $29B in financing

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:25:06 +0000

"A new federal program to support state and local housing finance agencies is expected to involve more than $29 billion in government support, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac disclosed Thursday."

iehi posted 3 days ago from hf-implode.com

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Risk versus the US dollar

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:37:16 +0000

If and when the Federal Reserve moves out of the mortgage backed securities field -a move expected in the first quarter of 2010-, will private investors step in? Well, why should they? What profit can they expect to reap? US housing prices have been kept artificially high for at least the past ...

iehi posted 4 days ago from hf-implode.com

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U.S. to aid some local mortgage programs

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:11:08 +0000

A Treasury Department program aimed at propping up local housing finance agencies will help inject $29 billion into these groups over the next year, according to government data scheduled to be released Tuesday. The program focuses on state and local housing finance agencies, which provide ...

iehi posted 7 days ago from hf-implode.com

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FHA boss: FHA is not the new subprime (AP)

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:35:53 +0000

AP - Federal Housing Administration Commissioner David Stevens says concerns that the agency is headed for the same financial trouble that snared Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the subprime sector are unwarranted.

Newsback found this 9 days ago on news.yahoo.com

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Fannie, Freddie, Counterparty Risk and More

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:56:54 +0000

Yesterday I posted some excerpt from Freddie Mac's 10-Q: We believe that several of our mortgage insurance counterparties are at risk of falling out of compliance with regulatory capital requirements, which may result in regulatory actions that could threaten our ability to receive future claims ...

FT Alphaville found this 12 days ago on calculatedriskblog.com

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Our Economy Is on Steroids

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:00:00 +0000

To help the auto industry, taxpayers were subsidizing the price of autos through the Cash for Clunkers program and thus were creating artificial demand. The housing market, the epicenter of this crisis, is propped up from different directions. On one side there's a buyer tax credit (it used to ...

Fund My Mutual Fund found this 6 days ago on minyanville.com

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Stocks Overvalued, Recession Will Return: Meredith Whitney

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:52:00 +0000

Stocks are overvalued and the US economy is likely to fall back into a recession next year, well-known analyst Meredith Whitney told CNBC. "I haven't been this bearish in a year," she said in a live interview. "I look at the board and every single stock from Tiffany [ TIF Loading... ( ) ...

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis found this 8 days ago on cnbc.com

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Bair: "Bank Bailout NOT a good thing"; Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp (PBGC) Bailout Coming

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:58:44 +0000

David Stevens: "Bailout is a term widely used with financial institutions. FHA is a government agency so let's just be clear. .... FHA does not operate under the same context as a typical financial institution. So the term bailout really just does not apply technically" Lovely Given that ...

iehi posted 10 days ago from hf-implode.com

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Stiglitz and Orszags on Fannie Mae

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:55:00 +0000

(November 8, 2009 01:23 PM, by David Henderson) The paper concludes that the probability of default by the GSEs is extremely small. Given this, the expected monetary costs of exposure to GSE insolvency are relatively small -- even given very large levels of outstanding GSE debt and even...

Aguanomics found this 11 days ago on econlog.econlib.org

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Why No One’s Watching Fannie and Freddie

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:43:19 +0000

"An arcane legal matter has left the agency charged with overseeing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac without an independent inspector general for nearly one year, setting off a storm of finger pointing and raising concerns from members of Congress over why the agency has gone without independent ...

iehi posted 5 days ago from hf-implode.com

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