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• How ACORN destroyed the housing market

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 163
  Over at the Wall Street Journal, theres a very interesting article that connects the dots between ACORN, the mortgage-lending-standard-destroying Community Reinvestment Act legislation, Fannie Mae and the eventual inflation and collapse of the housing bubble in last decade: As Allen Fishbein, currently an adviser for ...
  7 hours ago

• Are You Looking For A Lifeline After Foreclosure?

  
  Refinance Home Mortgages — Authority: 430
  What does it mean when your home is underwater? It means you owe more on your home than it is worth in the open market.So what do you do? (...)
  19 hours ago

• Fannie Mae Allows You To Lease Back Your Foreclosed Home

  
  Refinance Home Mortgages — Authority: 430
  You can also rent it back.At what price? Market price says Fannie Mae.Lenders are doing everything they can to staunch the tide of foreclosures which threatens to overwhelm home values. (...)
  19 hours ago

• Freddie Mac Loses More Money In Third Quarter

  
  Refinance Home Mortgages — Authority: 430
  It has already received a $51 billion bailout (a similar size to what Fannie Mae received).Yeah, and its executives received payouts over a million dollars.Great. (...)
  19 hours ago

• Federal Reserve Plans To Keep Interest Rates Low For Months

  
  Refinance Home Mortgages — Authority: 430
  Theyre doing everything they can to stimulate the economy.We had modest GDP growth last quarter. Home sales are down, however. The federal deficit is booming. The dollar is dropping. (...)
  20 hours ago

• Rent Your Home Instead Of Getting Foreclosed

  
  Refinance Home Mortgages — Authority: 430
  If you cant get a mortgage modification, if you cant meet your mortgage payments, but you dont want to move out of your home, you might be in luck if your mortgage is with Fannie Mae. (...)
  20 hours ago

• Next Bailout Candidate

  
  Dollars & Sense blog — Authority: 490
  And the winner is...The Federal Housing Administration (FHA)! Lest it be forgotten, as the article duly notes: The FHA and the government-sponsored housing agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac currently provide about 90 per cent of all new mortgages in the US housing market. From The Financial Times: Defaults ...
  21 hours ago

• Fannie and Freddie: Let’s Try The Honor System

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 139
  Well at least the government -subsidized mortgage industry is efficacious and legally astute in one respect.  The Huffington Post’s Ryan Grim has this investigative report on Fannie Me and Freddie Mac getting rid of its own inspector general : There is no independent auditor overseeing the federal agency ...
  22 hours ago

• The Week in Government Failure

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  Over at Downsizing Government , we focused on failures in the following departments and agencies this week: Export-Import Bank: Call it the “Boeing Bank” HUD: Federal Housing Administration woes continue and housing subsidies for the dead Transportation: High-speed rail lobbyists squabble over taxpayer ...
  23 hours ago

• Government Housing Adventures

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which have already consumed $112 billion in taxpayer bailouts, may have additional losses if they can’t recoup claims from struggling private mortgage insurers. From the Journal : Fannie Mae has about $109.5 billion of mortgage-insurance ...
  1 day ago

• Et Tu, FHA?

  
  City Lakes Real Estate Blog — Authority: 137
  Hemorrhaging at FHAFHA runs low on cash, fueling bailout concerns.--Headline, The Boston Globe (11/13/09)Here we go again.First come the rumors of funny accounting and huge, buried losses.Then come the vehement denials from company executives.Finally, the truth comes out: the critics are vindicated, the losses are ...
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• Fannie Mae is my Landlord?

  
  Phoenix Arizona Real Estate Local News and Business Directory — Authority: 438
  Phoenix – Well when you think they have thought of everything, Fannie is now in the Landlord business. However, it does help the struggling homeowners from becoming homeless which is a good... This is a summary of the article. For the complete article, please visit the site. Thank you http://www.evliving.com/
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• Guest Post: Commentary On Neil Barofskys Upcoming TARP Report

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 768
  Submitted by Janet Tavakoli from Tavakoli Structure Finance My comments on the upcoming TARP report will echo my February 4, 2009 comments .  TARP’s inspector general Neil Barofsky already anticipates losses .  Unfortunately, the losses are right on schedule.   Let’s hope that Barofsky did not rely upon ...
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• The Power of The Department of Justices Office of Legal Counsel

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 768
  It is easy to forget that the United States Government and its citizens have distinctly different relationships with the law.  While citizens and corporations look at statutes to see what they are prohibited from doing, governments must look to statutes to see what they are specifically authorized to do .  In ...
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• Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac FIRE Their Own Inspector General

  
  The Economic Populist - Speak Your Mind 2 Cents at a Time — Authority: 587
  Dont want people to know how screwed up your are? Well, just fire your inspector general : There is no independent auditor overseeing the federal agency responsible for some $6 trillion in home mortgages, because the Department of Justices Office of Legal Counsel ruled that the agencys inspector general didnt have ...
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• Underwriting Hurdles Increase Banks Raise Mortgage Qualification Standards

  
  Your Mortgage Planner 2.0 Blog Your Mortgage Planner 2.0 Blog — Authority: 123
  Despite the economy’s improvement and prodding from Congress, banks don’t seem ready to open their purse strings just yet. Nationally, mortgage approval standards are tightening . The data comes from a quarterly survey the Federal Reserve sends to its member banks.  The Fed asks senior bank loan officers ...
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• Banks Raising the Bar on Mortgage Qualifications

  
  wealthwithmortgage.com — Authority: 126
  Approvals Are Getting Harder to Come By Despite the economy’s improvement and prodding from Congress, banks don’t seem ready to open their purse strings just yet. Nationally, mortgage approval standards are tightening . The data comes from a quarterly survey the Federal Reserve sends to its member banks.  ...
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• Geithner Is Kidding, Right?

  
  Wall St. Cheat Sheet — Authority: 637
  This is a guest post by The Golden Truth . “U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the government’s borrowing needs would be substantially less than expected” If he made that statement in front of an audience of Chinese university students, he would have been laughed out of the auditorium.  I’m ...
  2 days ago

• Guest Post: Veterans Get Lip Service, Bankers Get Billions & We Get Foreclosures

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 768
  Submitted by Dylan Ratigan One thing about doing a two hour show that heavily covers both the financial crisis and the wars in Iraq andAfghanistan is that you notice on a daily basis the shockingjuxtaposition between the lucky Wall Streeters and the unluckysoldiers. We all know at this point that our banking ...
  2 days ago

• Here We Go Again With The Lending

  
  San Francisco real estate insight, statistics, gossip, and news with a twist and some flavor - theFrontSteps — Authority: 121
  Intercepted from inter-office emails: Great News, We are now offering Fannie’s new HomePath loan program! Let your clients know these improved loan terms to generate new business. Essentially, the program has the clients using Fannie loans to buy foreclosed properties owned by Fannie, therefore Fannie gives ...
  2 days ago

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