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TheStreet.com
7 hrs ago
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were again huge winners on Friday.
Shares of Fannie Mae were up 41% to close at $2.97, while Freddie Mac was also up 41% to close at $2.81, after Ralph Nader in an op-ed piece in the Wall...
TheStreet.com
11 hrs ago
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Famous consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader has renewed his efforts on behalf of common shareholders of bailed out mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac .
In a Wall Street Journal...
TheStreet.com
May 23
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shares have more than doubled over the past 10 trading days on heavy volumes, adding to big gains posted in March after the shares had been dormant for several weeks.
Professional investors...
Cloud Computing
May 23
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Kroll Factual Data, Inc. (Kroll Factual Data), a leading provider of
risk mitigation and independent verification services to the mortgage
industry, and Mortgage Builder Software, Inc. (Mortgage Builder), an
industry-leading...
The Globe and Mail
May 15
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Hedge fund manager is moving in on Fannie, Freddie preferred shares. Let him
TheStreet.com
May 15
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The U.S. budget deficit in 2013 is projected to shrink faster than earlier thought, thanks in large part to the government's new cash cows, bailed-out housing giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
The Congressional Budget...
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I suppose a priapicnl reduction program would be better than nothing, but there is always the risk of unintended consequences or even operational failure when attempting such a specific intervention. Why not let monetary policy do the work in a continuous, predictable, and agnostic fashion? It would deliver benefits not only to home owners, but also by reducing the real return on the many large cash-equivalent investments amassed by corporations like Apple ($60B last I checked), spurring them to put funds to more productive use. And of course, monetary policy can benefit from the Chuck Norris effect. Fiscal policy hasn't exactly inspired such reactions of late.
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