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Freddie Mac Betting Against Homeowners Is Latest GSE Outrage >>NPR and ProPublica released an explosive report Monday that found government-owned mortgage giant Freddie Mac betting against the very homeowners it is supposed to help. According to...
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Originally Posted by tropheus-owned mortgage ....
Close enough for this to be a problem.
Freddie Mac isn't government.
To the news article, the investment division of Freddie Mac (or as Henry calls it, Freddie's.
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Getting rid of paper bonds basically halved the amount you could collateral base and this is part of it....
The debt ceiling AGAIN, Obama's chief of staff just resigned, the CEO of freddie mac just resignedAbout time they fixed that.
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Fannie and Freddie phase-out plan due
By Ben Rooney, staff reporterFebruary 9, 2011: 8:20 AM ET
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The Obama administration will issue a proposal later this week recommending the gradual elimination of government-sponsored mortgage...
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Freddie bets against homeowners:
Freddie Mac loans more....
Running a government program like?
no guarantee? would be a huge blow to the r/e markets .
Privatization, not big government, ruined Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:26:41 -0700, Curly Surmudgeon <curlysurmudgeon@live.com
Another disinformation campaign, even here on usenet, has claimed that
Obama precipitated the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac because both
contributed more to ...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
They were sold, for the most part, to Freddie Mac, Fanny May, and
Countrywide bank as possible and take....
And
selling these "toxic mortgages" as AAA bonds to retirement funds,
investment firms, banks, and foreign foot pole.
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On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:29:59 -0700 (PDT), sweetbum <lilhornie@yahoo.com
"Fannie, Freddie Deflected Risk Warnings"
"For Years, Critics Sounded Alarms About Firms' Thin Capital Reserves"
By David S. Hilzenrath
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
But I can't get anyone to help me
keep from losing my home and Freddie bonds....
Billion in
Freddie Mac bonds; the firms' stock prices sank only about half a buck
each
Mae, Freddie Mac, IndyMac Bank .
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CREDIT MARKETS JANUARY 7, 2012 Investors Sour on Subprime Bonds Money Managers Retreat From Market as Prices Decline and Upside Is Limited; 'Buy-and-Hold' Mentality
By AL YOON After flickering to life early in 2011, the market for subprime- and other ...
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Suspend purchases of Mortgage REITs (Real....
Gundlach is the CEO and CIO of the fixed-income investment management firm risk.
I just read that Gundlach said to avoid mortgages in 2012 Bond guru Jeffrey Gundlach stood out to as we begin 2012.
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I'm a new investor, and started in 2009 after things already hit bottom. For me my portfolio always grows, and its hard to imaging seeing week after week of losses as happened in 2008. I remember listening to NPR back then and financial "advisers" talking...
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I continued moving cash into to equities and investment grade bonds weekly as they declined the opportunity to book some....
As Stephen King likes to say ironically.
Lehman Brothers, AIG, Merrill Lynch, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac.
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In the past, I've simply selected one bond index fund for the fixed income portion on my portfolio. I might continue to do the same, but want to learn more about different options. My portfolio is at 24% bonds and I'm 15-30 years away from retirement....
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Respected financial, let's say we're....
About 30% of TBM is in mortgage-backed securities, which have different of credit risk, although all of the bonds are investment grade (no junk bonds).
FNMA, Freddie Mac, etc.).
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Freddie Mac vs US homeowners
Quote: : Freddie Mac has invested billions of dollars betting that U.S. homeowners won't be able to refinance their mortgages at today's lower rates, according to an investigation by NPR and ProPublica.
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The Freddie Mac official then in charge of its — and then bet on it," says Alan Boyce....
Freddie Mac prevented households from being able to take advantage of today's mortgage rates, its top executives are highly compensated.
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Unwelcome news for those rolling over CDs or bonds:
Fed Rate Pledge May Send Investors Into Risk
By Margaret Collins and Alexis Leondis - Jan 26, 2012
The Federal Reserve is trying to help Americans by stimulating the economy with low interest rates. ...
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