On June 25, Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William J. Pulte ordered Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – the two ...

Privatizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac risks a return to the kind of perilous mortgages that helped cause the global financial crisis unless regulatory safeguards are kept in place, an affordable ...

Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director William J. Pulte has ordered Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to begin preparing their systems to recognize cryptocurrency as an asset in mortgage ...

The movie The Big Short—dramatizing the reckless behavior in the banking and mortgage industries that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis—captures much of Wall Street's misconduct but ...

The movie "The Big Short" -- dramatizing the reckless behavior in the banking and mortgage industries that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis -- captures much of Wall Street's misconduct but ...

Don't end the conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac without eliminating the implicit government backing for their mortgages. Contributor: A Trump deregulator may set us up for a sequel to ...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should participate in the mortgage market only as fully private entities, without any implicit government guarantees. The American public doesn't need a sequel to The ...

The American public doesn't need a sequel to "The Big Short." The painful lessons of the 2008 crisis are too recent and too severe to be ignored or forgotten. Market discipline, fiscal ...

However, if the lending institutions did not comply with minimum goals, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would have to refuse to back the mortgages (this is called moral suasion).

The privatization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac comes with risks and benefits. No matter where you stand on this issue, caution is the word. Budge Huskey is chief executive officer of Premier ...

Fannie, Freddie Will Need Rules To Avoid 'Race To Bottom,' Housing Nonprofit Cautions Dallas-Fort Worth View count: Dallas-Fort Worth. June 17, 2025 | 1:29 p.m. ET Billy ...