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• U.S. Uncaps Support for Fannie, Freddie

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Treasury said it would provide capital as needed to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over the next three years, effectively opening its checkbook to the government-controlled companies in a bid to reassure investors in their debt. Treasury also will end its purchases of the companies mortgage-backed ...
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• A must read: “Why Interest Rates Will Almost Certainly Rise in 2010″

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  quote Interest rates, artifically suppressed by the Federal Reserve and China, are about to start rising, and will continue rising for a generation. On Christmas Eve 2009, I wish I could parrot the “happy-happy” Party Line that interest rates and mortgage rates will stay low for essentially ever, but that would ...
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• Treasury removes ($400 billion) cap for Fannie and Freddie aid

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  The government has handed its ATM card to beleaguered mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Treasury Department said Thursday it removed the $400 billion financial cap on the money it will provide to keep the companies afloat. Already, taxpayers have shelled out $111 billion to the pair, and a senior ...
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• GOLDMAN et. al.: SOLD HIGH RISK DERIVATIVES TO CLIENTS AND THEN PLACED BET THEY WOULD FAIL!

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  GOLDMAN = Manufactured Insider Trading! http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/24/business/24trading.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2&hp G0LDMAN trader and Princeton grad, Jonathan M. Egol, at 37 was named a managing director at the firm for creating mortgage-backed securities, named Abacus and C.D.O.’s, initially ...
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• Obama Administration Lifts Bailout Cap for Fannie and Freddie

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 464
  Treasury Department officials said the cap will be replaced with a flexible formula to ensure the companies will have all the government support needed to stand behind the billions of dollars in mortgage-backed securities they sell to investors.
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• Goldman Sachs Defense: Its Not My Dog

  
  City Lakes Real Estate Blog — Authority: 136
  Goldman Sachs: Preying on its Clients (& Taxpayers, too)[Note to Readers: No, this hasnt become the "anti-Goldman Sachs rant" blog. Its just that: a) the firms conduct is/was so outrageous; b) the economic harm it caused so far-reaching; and c) authorities response to the firms conduct so feeble (if you can call ...
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• Commercial Real Estate Continues To Falter

  
  Stock Market Analysis, Trading, And Financial Commentary - Rebel Traders — Authority: 135
  The Bloomberg article says it all - Dec. 21 (Bloomberg) — Commercial property values in the U.S. declined in October to the lowest level in more than seven years as unemployment reduced demand for apartments, offices and retail space. [...] [...]Values are dropping as U.S. unemployment climbs and consumers cut ...
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• The Second Wave of Mortgage Defaults

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 629
  Our economy is about to relapse into the disease that sent us into the Great Depression: Part Deux. Subprime loans caused the initial illness. Option-ARMs will cause the relapse. In the first half of the past decade, subprime loans were king. They were cheap and easy to get approved. Along with the subprime boom came ...
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• Marc Faber Bullish on Agriculture, Natural Gas, Indian Banks & Real Estate

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 142
  The following are highlights from part two of the three-part interview  Dr. Marc Faber did on Indian television channel, December 19, 2009. Dollar & Gold The dollar has been weak, but in Europe, the ECB is also a money printer.  The euro has many problems as well as other currencies that have ...
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• Have Things Turned the Corner for Funding Aussie Mortgage Growth?

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 526
  It ought to be fairly quiet this week. The markets are open this week but everyones in transit to 2010. The airport here in Melbourne is full of people going home for the holidays, including your editor. But just because something ought to be so doesnt make it so. For example, oil ought to be heading lower - or at ...
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• Estimating the Impact of the Fed’s Mortgage Portfolio

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 665
  Some of the big questions looming about the Fed’s exit strategy are if, when, and at what pace the Fed should draw down its huge portfolio of mortgage backed securities (MBS). At its meeting last week the Federal Open Market Committee announced that it is continuing its MBS purchases at a...
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• What Happens to Housings Turnaround When Uncle Sam Backs Out?

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 764
  Many are heralding the recent blip up in housing starts as evidence that housing is "turning the corner." But lets not forget that unprecedented government intervention throughout the mortgage and housing industries is the only thing keeping these markets afloat. Continue reading What Happens to Housings Turnaround ...
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• Icap to pay $25 million in SEC fraud charges settlement

  
  Fair Loan Rate! — Authority: 138
  Icap PLC is known as the U.S. subsidiary of the London inter-dealer broker . By paying $25 million in penalties, the company has settled the fraud charges brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission . Icap matches Buyers and Sellers for securities The SEC said that in the over-the-counter markets ...
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• Moodys Puts $143 Billion Of Jumbo RMBS On Downgrade Review

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 736
  With the ABX Prime index stirring those willing to take risk on prime residential exposure, Moodys came out with a report demonstrating why there likely will be a recurring offer on the index. In short: Moodys Investors Service has revised its loss projections for US prime jumbo residential mortgage backed ...
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• The Dark Gray Swan: No More Foreign Dollars With Which To Buy US Treasuries

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 736
  Could the next black/green/dark gray swan be so obvious that it has avoided everyone? Well, except for the deputy governor of the Bank of China, who just gave the world a startling reminder of economics 101, when he said that it is " getting harder for governments to buy United States Treasuries becausethe USs ...
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• We May Never Pass This Way Again…

  
  Lynchburg Real Estate — Authority: 126
  It is said all good things must come to an end. While this may not be true in all areas, with phenomenally low interest rates, it is true. Mortgage rates have been artificially low for the last twelve months, thanks to support from the Federal Reserve and U.S Treasury. Last November, liquidity in the financial ...
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• Guest Post: American Purgatory

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 736
  Submitted by Greg Simmons and Brett Buchanan of Scope Labs Are financial markets a direct reflection of the overall health of a nation? I wish they were not, but I fear they are. I wonder at times if our nation has entered a state of purgatory –all of us mulling around in the waiting room to Hell, ...
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• Pillaging the Average American: Wall Street Paying Back Bailouts with Bailouts.

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 518
  Pillaging the Average American: Wall Street Paying Back Bailouts with Bailouts. December 16th, 2009 admin In the last few weeks the corporatocracy has gone on a massive Madison Avenue public relations tour touting the great job banks are doing and how they are paying back the taxpayer for the generous gift of ...
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• Much of the Same from the FOMC

  
  HSH Associates Financial News Blog — Authority: 129
  The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) ended their two-day meeting today the same way they have been for months now: keeping the target for the Fed funds rates between 0 and 0.25%, and claiming that the economy continues to recover, albeit very slowly : Although economic activity is likely to remain weak for a ...
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• FOMC Statement: "Exceptionally" And "Extended", Liquidity Swap Arrangements Coming To An End On February 1, 2010

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 736
  Release Date: December 16, 2009 For immediate release Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met inNovember suggests that economic activity has continued to pick up andthat the deterioration in the labor market is abating. The housingsector has shown some signs of improvement over recent ...
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