Tue 2008-09-23 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: Freddie, Fannie and (Sort of) Federal Home Loan Bank Bailout
Fannie; Federal Home Loan Bank Bailout; Freddie; naked capitalism; sorts.
Tue 2008-09-23 00:00 EDT
Tue 2008-09-02 00:00 EDT
Fannie debt; Foreign Investors Selling Freddie; naked capitalism.
Tue 2008-09-02 00:00 EDT
``I was "present at the creation" of Freddie Mac's risk management culturethe Foster...Van Order approach to pricing mortgage default risk. That was the approach that [Freddie Mac CEO Richard Syron] rejected''
Arnold Kling; Chapter; econlog; economic; Freddie Mac; liberties; libraries.
Tue 2008-09-02 00:00 EDT
Fri 2008-08-08 00:00 EDT
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Hired Guns on the Scene: "annie Mae and Freddie Mac are going to be nationalized, busted up, and hundred of billions in Continental holdings are going to be divided up as spoils by insider financial quasi-criminals"
Fri 2008-08-08 00:00 EDT
nationalizing Fannie and Freddie, plundering the population
America; Big Bailout; full-spectrum kleptocracy; Pro Libertate.
Mon 2008-08-04 00:00 EDT
Bagehot's Rule and the Cost of Being "Technically Insolvent"; "Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were given open-ended government guarantees through January 2009. This open-endedness is a big mistake, because the potential costs are being as vastly understated as the pre-war estimates of the Iraq invasion."
Wed 2008-07-16 00:00 EDT
Confidence; Dollar Tanks; Fannie; Freddie; naked capitalism; voting.
Tue 2008-07-15 00:00 EDT
politics of fannie, freddie bailout
blogs Archive; Brad Setser; Chinese; fail; follows; money; Russian.
Mon 2008-07-14 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: The Real Test of the Not-Yet-A-Plan Fannie & Freddie Operation
Freddie operation; naked capitalism; Plan Fannie; real test.