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The bailout and government ownership of Fannie Mae (OTC: FNMA)(OTCBB: FNMA) and Freddie Mac (OTC: FMCC)(OTCBB: FMCC) has been tumultuous at best. The controversial bankruptcy and bailout of the two government-backed insurers, politically motivated to maintain diplomatic ties with allies including...

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This weekend in Barron's online: a special report on the record Dow and the prospects for actively managed ETFs, the buyout of Dell, and Western Union and Uni-Pixel. Cover Story "We Were Right!" by Gene Epstein. In this special report, Barron's "jubilantly joins the hoopla" over the Dow reaching...

This past weekend in Barron's online: why Goldman Sachs has held up better than its competitors, the prospects for Trinity Biotech, Steelcase and the Kraft Foods spinoff, and what it means to be a leader of philanthropic causes today. Cover Story "Built to Win" by Michael Santoli. In the...

Spanky and the Gang are at it again. Not content with previous shenanigians in manipulating and propping up homes prices, they're back at it again. Word is out that the Obama Administration, in conjunction with Freddie, Fannie, Treasury, Fed, FDIC, HUD and FHFA, is preparing programs to sell...

An important but fundamentally flawed debate about Fannie and Freddie's role in the ongoing crisis has raged since the SEC sued the former senior managers of both entities for securities fraud. The Wall Street Journal and Peter Wallison (in the WSJ) have claimed that the suit vindicates their...

Sixty Minutes' December 11, 2011 interview of President Obama included the following gem: KROFT: One of the things that surprised me the most about this poll is that 42%, when asked who your policies favor the most, 42% said Wall Street. Only 35% said average Americans. My suspicion is some of...

According to a recent Bloomberg Markets Magazine article, in the summer of 2008, former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson tipped off a group of powerful hedge fund managers about a possible scenario where the government would place ailing mortgage GSE's Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into conservatorship...

With a constitutional business potentially in default, food stamps on the rise, and a government controlled mortgage company posting losses, could the image of the common family be in jeopardy? Rather an end to the common family, here is why the common family is only redistributing itself....

The Federal Reserve has announced which banks borrowed from the Fed discount window during the 2008 financial crisis. A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by pension funds who claimed Freddie Mac materially misrepresented its exposure to risky mortgage products. Vice President Joe Biden...