Tag: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

The two engaged in a tense back-and-forth over a 2016 program started by Watt to reduce the balances of delinquent home loan borrowers. (AP)

Mel Watt squares off against Elizabeth Warren: ‘Unfair and untrue and unjust’

Joseph Lawler · May 11, 2017 5:47 pm

Mel Watt, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, told a panel of senators Thursday that the government-sponsored enterprises will see their capital buffer reduced to zero under law by the start of next year, leaving the companies at the mercy of markets. (Drew Angerer/Bloomberg)

Regulator warns Fannie, Freddie may need to draw on Treasury funds next year

Joseph Lawler · May 11, 2017 2:48 pm

For Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, a former banker, overhauling the bailed-out mortgage giants is a personal priority. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Fixing Fannie and Freddie won’t be any easier for the Trump team

Joseph Lawler · May 6, 2017 12:00 pm

Republicans are preparing to attempt the massive undertaking of overhauling the U.S. housing finance market. (AP Photo/File)

Fannie, Freddie regulator to testify as GOP eyes reform

Joseph Lawler · May 3, 2017 10:43 pm

Senate Finance panel is set to vote on the package Tuesday and the House will vote on it "shortly thereafter." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Hensarling to move Dodd-Frank replacement next week, eyes Fannie and Freddie

Joseph Lawler · April 27, 2017 9:52 pm

The Independent Community Bankers of America, a trade group that represents small banks, released a plan Tuesday for reforming Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Community bankers call for Fannie, Freddie to be released from government

Joseph Lawler · April 25, 2017 2:22 pm

Mortgage bankers started a new effort to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, seeking to push Congress to pass legislation after a bipartisan group of senators failed in 2013. (AP Photo/File)

Mortgage bankers launch new plan for reforming Fannie and Freddie

Joseph Lawler · April 20, 2017 3:49 pm

Roundtable CEO Tim Pawlenty called DeMarco a "deeply knowledgeable and passionate policy expert." (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Former Fannie, Freddie regulator Ed DeMarco named to industry group

Joseph Lawler · April 11, 2017 9:02 pm

How Tax Reform Could Hasten Housing-Finance Reform

Ike Brannon · April 6, 2017 11:30 am

Time to Fix Fannie and Freddie

Ike Brannon · March 31, 2017 7:00 am

Jerome Corsi signs copies of his books at the Book Expo America in New York, Wednesday, May 25, 2011.

Author known for birther book steps into Fannie, Freddie battle

Joseph Lawler · March 10, 2017 9:30 pm

Fannie and Freddie investors have filed a number of suits over the Obama administration's 2012 decision to take all of the companies' profits for the Treasury. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Hedge funds denied in suit over Fannie, Freddie bailout

Joseph Lawler · February 21, 2017 5:40 pm