calculatedrisk.blogspot.com - 11/20/2008
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Press Release from Fannie Mae (no link yet): Fannie Mae to Suspend Foreclosures Until January In order to support the streamlined modification program announced on November 11, 2008, Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) today issued a notice to its loan servicing organizations and retained foreclosure ...
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 11/17/2008
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krugman.blogs.nytimes.com —
So I was listening to Arnold Schwarzenegger before
doing the This Weak round table, and he was...
mostly making sense - except for one thing. He asserted, as a simple matter of fact, that "government created the housing bubble", because Fannie and ...
(more)
Fannie Freddie Phony
americablog.com - 11/14/2008
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americablog.com —
The GOP legacy continues . By the time
Bush leaves office the US housing market will almost...
surely exceed 1,000,000 foreclosed homes. It's hard to imagine why Americans said "enough" of the policies and attitudes that created this disaster. As ...
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85,000 foreclosures in October
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Fannie and Freddie to Suspend Foreclosures
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... properties as well as the completion of evictions from occupied single-family properties scheduled to occur from November 26, 2008 until January 9, 2009. The temporary suspension of foreclosures is designed to allow affected borrowers facing foreclosure to retain their homes while Fannie Mae works with mortgage servicers to implement the streamlined modification program scheduled to launch December 15. Freddie Mac also announced they are suspending foreclosures. Read more: http://calculatedrisk.blogspot.com/2008/11/fannie-and-f...
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