How’s that Fannie and Freddie “Rescue” Working Out?
hf-implode.com 9/29/2009 — " Conservatorship has not been about placing the two GSEs on a stronger footing, it has been about keeping the party going. The party has been limping along somewhat, but at what price?"

Fannie and Freddie Did Not Cause the Crisis
delong.typepad.com 11/20/2008 — Once again, Richard Green's refutation of the right-wing hack claim that Fannie and Freddie caused the crisis by leading poor private-sector financiers to make stupid loans: Richard's Real Estate and Urban Economics Blog: Charles Calomiris and ...

Fannie & Freddie: The most expensive bailout - Jul. 22, 2009
money.cnn.com 7/23/2009 — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The first big government bailout of the financial crisis -- the takeover of mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- is poised to be the most expensive and complicated to complete. Since Congress essentially ...

Why No One’s Watching Fannie and Freddie
hf-implode.com 16 days ago — "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 ...

Fannie, Freddie Won’t Repay All Aid, Lockhart Says
hf-implode.com 7/30/2009 — " Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the largest U.S. mortgage-finance companies, won’t be able to repay all of the $84.9 billion in federal aid they have received since being seized by the government last year, their regulator said."

Should the government own any part of the "good" Fannie and Freddie?
hf-implode.com 8/9/2009 — " If policymakers have learned anything from the subprime meltdown, it's that the hybrid model doesn't work. As the saying goes, it privatizes the upside and socializes the downside. There's no such thing as an "implicit" government guarantee -- if Wall Street pins its investing on the ...

Fannie and Freddie to Aid Mortgage Banks
online.wsj.com 10/6/2009 — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are preparing to introduce a program aimed at helping independent mortgage banks acquire the short-term credit they need to make home loans, according to people familiar with the plans. The two government-backed mortgage ...

Modelling Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
hf-implode.com 8/16/2009 — " In this post I am going to create a naïve (but surprisingly robust) model of end losses using those cumulative default curves. "

Why The Media Ignores The $400 Billion Fannie And Freddie Bailout
businessinsider.com 5/9/2009 — This morning, Fannie Mae (FNM) announced that it had lost another $23 billion in the quarter, and would have to call down $19 billion more in taxpayer support. It also said that it would face losses as far as the eye can see. Do you know how much ...

Driving the Stock Market
ritholtz.com 8/31/2009 — In this week’s Barron’s , Mike Santoli asks: “How is it possible, though, that Citigroup (ticker: C), Fannie Mae (FNM), Freddie Mac (FRE), Bank of America (BAC) and AIG (AIG) — with a combined market value near $200 ...

The Wall Street Journal's Fraud Blindness — The Big Money 8/12/2009
Eliot Spitzer takes to the pages of Slate to rebut his Wall Street Journal critics: I have tried not to say too much about former AIG CEO Hank Greenberg's efforts to dance his way through his $15 million settlement with the SEC. Greenberg's ...

AIG, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: The toxic trio — The Economist: Full print edition 8/13/2009
American taxpayers are ploughing billions in. Will they get their money back? FORGET the banks and the carmakers. The biggest bets that American taxpayers have made are on three less famous firms: American International Group (AIG), an insurer, and ...