Posts with tag bailout

Spring Break: How Fannie & Freddie Will Bail Us Out

I recently detailed the trouble that's coming for American home owners with the end of the recession (except not for us), the recovery of the big banks (but not commercial lending), the rise of the stock markets (but not jobs), and the likely further declines for housing as what little stimulus was being applied there... Continue Reading »

Fannie-Freddie II: The Wrath of Obama

So why did the Obama Administration last week increase the amount of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac losses it would cover from the previous limit of $400 billion to the new limit of infinity? In the simplest terms, it was to reassure investors like China or Saudi Arabia who have bought or might buy in the future the securities... Continue Reading »

Person of the Year? Not Bernanke. Try Grandma.

Since AOL is no longer of the Time-Warner body, it's easy to say Time made a mistake when it announced this week that Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke should be its Person of the Year. But if Bernanke was a mistake, who should be Person of the Year? I nominate Grandma -- your Grandma, my Grandma, every Grandma --... Continue Reading »

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