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by Aubrey Clark - 2008-05-28
America's two largest mortgage controllers, Freddie Mac (FMLC) and Fannie Mae (FNMA) recently agreed to enact tougher standards on appraisers and lenders beginning in January 2009. FMLC and FNMA buy m...
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by Tom Simmons - 2008-06-26
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are two government sponsored entities (GSEs). GSEs are set up by the government but run privately. These two GSEs were started to back up mortgages, making it easier for ban...
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by Ernie Fitzpatrick - 2008-07-14
For those that have written off the commodities market and especailly gold (like Mahendra) and been long on the US$, things ar not going well. As I've written for nearly a decade now, GOLD is on a bu...
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by Mark Walters - 2008-08-23
Investors, don't expect home pricing to increase anytime soon. Recent events indicate that real estate values will stay flat or even decline further.Why the gloomy forecast? Let me count the reasons:...
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by Dane Smith - 2008-08-29
Mortgage interest rates moved down slightly this week. This was a good sign since it was not preceded by any rate cuts from the FED. The 30 year mortgage rate fell from 6.52 to 6.47 and the 15 year mo...
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by DAVID LOVATTSMITH - 2008-09-08
If you are an American taxpayer, that's you, dummy. If you thought gasoline prices, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were the pits, hold your breath. There's a whole bunch of freeloaders lining up ...
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by Ki Gray - 2008-09-10
So on Friday it was leaked that the government is taking over Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. On Sunday it was official. Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae have now been taken over by the federal government. ...
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by Ki Gray - 2008-09-13
I have been tracking mortgage interest rates for the last few months. Its always more interesting when there are drastic changes. This week we saw some of the largest changes we have seen this year...
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by Ki Gray - 2008-09-13
So it has been a week since the feds came in and took over Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. While it will obviously take some time to know the long term repercussions I wanted to look at some of the imme...
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by Ernie Fitzpatrick - 2008-09-17
Maybe Houston is a picture of what's happening in the world. I am talking about Houston after hurricane Ike. Just how far does our government think they can go pretending to keep things going well? H...