Word: mortgagees
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Speaking at an annual conference of real estate editors, James Lockhart, head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, said on Thursday the government shouldn't run Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Lockhart should know. He leads the agency that has been doing just that since last September, when the giant...
"What I have seen is that government insurance programs are high-risk," said Lockhart. "It is often difficult in a political environment to calculate or charge an actuarially fair price." It is essentially a moral-hazard argument. Lockhart believes that the government will never be able to accurately price the...
If the bottom lines of Fannie and Freddie are any guide, the government seems to be doing a less than stellar job with the two mortgage-financing giants. In the first three months of this year alone, Fannie and Freddie lost a combined $33 billion; the government has pumped $85...
The one really big, bold change envisioned in the Obama plan is the creation of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency that would take over the drafting and enforcement of consumer financial rules from the banking regulators. This is a move proposed two years ago by Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth...
The complicated case stems from the departure of Greenberg in 2005, when he was ousted from AIG, a company he ran for 37 years, amid an accounting scandal. While the case gets at the wacky bonuses and compensation structure present at AIG for years, the facts of it predates the...