On June 25, Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William J. Pulte ordered Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – the two government-sponsored enterprises that help keep mortgage dollars flowing in the ...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should participate in the mortgage market only as fully private entities, without any implicit government guarantees. The American public doesn't need a sequel to The ...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should participate in the mortgage market only as fully private entities, without any implicit government guarantees. The American public doesn’t need a sequel to ...

A meaningful solution requires Fannie and Freddie to strengthen their capital reserves significantly. The two government-sponsored enterprises still remain dangerously undercapitalized.

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Mortgage lenders working with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac can now choose to use Vantage Score 4.0, while still keeping tri-merge credit checks on borrowers. “Effective today,” Federal Housing Finance ...

Trump’s insistence that he would keep the government’s “implicit guarantee” of Fannie and Freddie could also inhibit efforts to change the CBO’s stance.

Common shares of Fannie and Freddie have both surged more than 100% so far this year on speculation that Trump will reform their capital structures and release dividends back to common shareholders.

The movie The Big Short—dramatizing the reckless behavior in the banking and mortgage industries that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis—captures much of Wall Street's misconduct but ...

Officials with the Trump administration have said a public offering of Fannie and Freddie stock could raise as much as $30B to help seed a U.S. sovereign wealth fund.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should participate in the mortgage market only as fully private entities, without any implicit government guarantees. The American public doesn't need a sequel to The ...