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The Motley Fool
August 10, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Are Homeowners About to Hit the Lottery? Rumors are that the Obama administration is about to order lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to forgive a portion of the mortgage debt of millions of Americans who owe more than what their homes are worth   |
The Motley Fool
September 10, 2008
Mac Greer |
Fool Video: Fannie and Freddie's Winners and Losers What does the government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mean for investors? Who are the winners? Who are the losers? These questions are discussed in this video. |
The Motley Fool
October 30, 2009
Morgan "Foreclosed" Housel |
World's Scariest Stocks: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac still give off the impression of being capitalistic, shareholder-owned companies. There's not. |
The Motley Fool
January 9, 2009
Alex Dumortier |
Citigroup's Shameful About-Face on Mortgage Mods Beware this misguided effort to stop foreclosures. |
The Motley Fool
January 25, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Fannie and Freddie Are Dead. What's Next? Housing, sans Uncle Sam. |
The Motley Fool
November 11, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
Fannie, Freddie: "Keep the House!" Are taxpayers subsidizing deadbeat homeowners? |
The Motley Fool
August 29, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Chinese Giving Up on Fannie and Freddie? The Bank of China has cut its securities issued or guaranteed by Fannie and Freddie by a quarter since the end of June. |
The Motley Fool
May 18, 2010
Morgan Housel |
The $215 Billion Hole in the Housing Market Underwater homeowners and the looming debt bomb. |
The Motley Fool
December 4, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
Paulson's New Plan: A Cheap Mortgage for Every Home A new rescue plan for the economy would use nationalized mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to lower the 30-year fixed mortgage rate down as far as 4.5%, over a full point lower than the current level. |
The Motley Fool
January 21, 2010
Philip Durell |
The Worst Stocks for 2010: Fannie Mae Shareholders should cry Uncle. |
The Motley Fool
May 15, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
Freddie Gets a Boost Freddie Mac's stock soars on news of capital raising. |
The Motley Fool
February 28, 2011
Dan Caplinger |
Why Getting a Mortgage Will Never Be the Same Lots of changes are happening to the mortgage market. |
The Motley Fool
December 29, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
The Daily Walk of Shame: Fannie and Freddie Why in the world are people still buying these stocks? |
The Motley Fool
September 8, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Paulson to Fannie and Freddie Investors: Drop Dead The Treasury secretary's plans to nationalize Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae will wipe out investors. |
The Motley Fool
November 28, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
Last Call for Smart Homeowners The Fed's recent move has triggered a sharp downtick in mortgage rates. If you want to refinance, it may be now or never. |
The Motley Fool
February 24, 2009
Morgan Housel |
JPMorgan Hunkers Down JPMorgan's cut is more practical than desperate, an attempt to position the company to repay TARP as soon as is prudent, and still maintain a strong capital position. |
The Motley Fool
February 15, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
Can You Really Just Walk Away? Giving up on your mortgage and letting the bank foreclose on your property might seem easy, but how smart is it? |
The Motley Fool
July 23, 2008
Morgan Housel |
The Freddie-Fannie Saga Continues The good news is that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are still alive and kicking. The bad news, and there's quite a bit of it, is that their story is far from over. |
The Motley Fool
January 26, 2010
Matt Koppenheffer |
Why Are Homeowners Idiots? There's nothing that confuses economists more than people not acting in their own best interest by continuing to pay a large mortgage on a devalued house. |
The Motley Fool
September 9, 2008
Morgan Housel |
How Did Freddie and Fannie Fall? In a word: ignorance. |
The Motley Fool
July 30, 2009
Morgan Housel |
How Long Can Annaly Keep This Up? For now, yes. Forever, no. |
The Motley Fool
August 19, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Freddie Shareholders: There's Nothing Left A Barrons article highlighted the truth: There's literally nothing left for common shareholders of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, particularly regarding Freddie. |
The Motley Fool
April 20, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Big Irony From a Big Bank JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon not only avoided the bulk of the financial disaster, but also spent years fortifying JPMorgan's balance sheet in case the Big One hit. But now, he makes one big hypocritical statement. |
BusinessWeek
January 27, 2011
Dakin Campbell |
Wells Fargo Is Ready to Roll Careful mortgage lending practices helped the San Francisco bank avoid the problems plaguing large rivals such as Bank of America and Citigroup. |
The Motley Fool
July 11, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
Freddie and Fannie Free-Fall There may be no choice but to bail out the behemoth mortgage lenders. |
The Motley Fool
February 15, 2011
Selena Maranjian |
Good Credit Won't Save You Now The "adverse market" surcharge could cost mortgage borrowers thousands annually. |
The Motley Fool
June 14, 2010
Russ Krull |
The Government: Worst Investor Ever? Here's a closer look at the U.S. Treasury's recent investments. |
The Motley Fool
July 2, 2010
Dan Caplinger |
Defaulting Homeowners Finally Pay the Price Don't expect another crack at the American Dream. Last week, Fannie Mae decided that it had had enough of the "strategic default" phenomenon. |
The Motley Fool
June 4, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Rebuilding General Motors The New GM, we hear, will be a lean, mean, profitable Motown machine. Therefore, taxpayers' 60.8% ownership stake might be worth something meaningful. Maybe even enough to recoup a significant portion of their investment. |
The Motley Fool
July 11, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
The Financial System Is Cracking Banking news: Things got worse in the credit crisis this week as the market speculated that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could need a government bailout. |
The Motley Fool
July 18, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Outrage of the Week: Freddie's Curious Accounting Bookkeeping was never meant to be this subjective. |
BusinessWeek
May 13, 2010
Roben Farzad |
Rethinking Fannie and Freddie Without overhauling the mortgage giants, reform is unlikely |
The Motley Fool
February 20, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
Housing Market Stimulants Bush administration remedies for the ailing housing market may provide much-needed inducements for the market to heal itself. |
BusinessWeek
July 8, 2010
Woellert & Miller |
Time to Rethink Fannie and Freddie The debate has begun on how to reform the mortgage giants. |
The Motley Fool
May 7, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
Amid Losses, Fannie Mae Takes on More Risk A deteriorating balance sheet, combined with dramatically increased risk exposure, could spell disaster for Fannie Mae. |
The Motley Fool
April 18, 2007
S.J. Caplan |
A Subprime Fix From Fannie and Freddie While internal housekeeping issues at Fannie and Freddie remain, one hopes that regulatory measures will not be imposed which will hamper their ability to responsibly and flexibly meet the needs of the market. |
The Motley Fool
November 26, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
The $800 Billion Pick-Me-Up for Consumer Credit The central bank announces an $800 billion support package aimed at spurring mortgage lending and consumer credit, including car, credit card, and small business loans. |
The Motley Fool
September 24, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
A Jumbo Opportunity Interest rates on jumbo mortgages rose nearly half a percentage point in August, even as regular mortgage rates were mostly coming down. Is it time to raise the jumbo loan amount minimum? |
The Motley Fool
August 6, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
Freddie Mac Is No Investment If you own Freddie Mac shares, the problem is that no one knows what their ultimate losses will be. And that's just one source of significant uncertainty surrounding Freddie and its big sister, Fannie Mae. |
The Motley Fool
July 14, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
Curtains for the American Dream? How trouble with Fannie and Freddie could affect your ability to get a mortgage. |
The Motley Fool
October 26, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
Don't Cut Off ARMs to Spite Your Face Mortgage products aren't the problem. Borrowers are. Used correctly, option ARMs provide flexibility that can be extremely helpful to borrowers whose cash flow isn't steady and predictable. |
The Motley Fool
August 11, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
The Fannie Mae DMZ Fannie Mae and her little brother, Freddie Mac, are minefields right now -- you'd be better off avoiding the stocks altogether. |
The Motley Fool
April 14, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Bailout Cost Plummets: Good News? It seems the bailouts taxpayers ponied up to save the financial system are going to cost a lot less than we thought. |
The Motley Fool
September 4, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Fannie and Freddie: 1 Year Later A look at the first shots fired in the financial meltdown, and where we go from here. |
The Motley Fool
June 30, 2004
Roger Nusbaum |
Freddie's Follies What's next for the mortgage behemoth, Freddie Mac? |
CFO
October 1, 2008
Stephen Taub |
Can Ex-CFOs Save Freddie & Fannie? Freddie's new Boss, Herbert Allison, once headed finance for Merrill Lynch before becoming CEO of TIAA-CREF. Fannie pins its hopes on David Moffett, former U.S. Bancorp CFO. |
The Motley Fool
September 9, 2009
Alex Dumortier |
One Year Later: The Big Risk We're Still Facing This fundamental risk is larger than ever. Banks that are "too big to fail" benefit from an implicit taxpayer subsidy since their funding costs do not adequately reflect the risk of failure. |
The Motley Fool
September 7, 2011
Dan Caplinger |
Stop Picking at the Housing Carcass The latest attack on banks sounds reasonable but makes no sense. |
BusinessWeek
February 17, 2011
Woellert & Shenn |
Who Steps Up in Mortgages After Fannie, Freddie? The Administration is counting on the private sector to fill the gap in home lending if it trims the roles of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. |
The Motley Fool
September 11, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
A Scorecard for the Fannie, Freddie Bailout As the dust settles on the first stage of the rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, it's time to chalk up winners and losers. |
