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...Doug Duncan, chief economist at Fannie Mae, said the jobs report provided further evidence of an “ongoing disparity” between consumer and business sentiment, which are upbeat, and the story told by economic...
...Additional reporting by Mary Childs and Adam Samson in New York...
...The pain combined with a wrath of new regulations sent private lenders dashing out of the market, writes Adam Samson in New York....
...In fact, Adam Posen supported something similar when he was on the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England, except that he focused on small businesses....
...Adam LaVier, managing director at Millstein & Co, said during a SFIG panel discussion on GSE reform that housing finance reform was not high on the list of priorities....
...In his 1995 book, Risk, John Adams used the metaphor of a “risk thermostat”. We have a certain tolerance, and if the atmosphere cools we turn up the heat....
...It inked a tentative $4.5bn settlement with private investors, including Blackstone, and last month agreed to pay $1.1bn to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, bringing its total payments to more than $18bn....
...While everything blows up… a blow-out speech by Adam Posen: Make no mistake, the right thing to do right now is for the Bank of England and the other G7 central banks to engage in further monetary stimulus...
...Adam Smith might spin in his grave. *Guaranteed to Fail: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Debacle of Mortgage Finance...
...“A release of origination claims precludes meaningful action on securitisation,” said Adam Levitin of Georgetown University Law Center. “It’s hard to separate them.”...
...Economist Adam Posen mooted the idea under the working title of British Enterprise Investment Entity or “Bennie”....
...I think Adam Posen recommended it at one stage....
...This includes the money spent to recapitalise banks and car companies but excludes measures to save the housing market and the huge non-Tarp losses on the mortgage finance groups Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...
...Adam Levitin, associate professor of law at Georgetown University, agreed that mortgage modification efforts had failed....
...Political liberals, on the other hand, are untroubled by any moral hazard created by government, including the spectacularly conflicted government-sponsored entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac....
...At the same time, the foundation of much modern economics and capitalism – Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations – languished around a rank of ten thousand....
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...“The unemployment number was pretty scary but we’re seeing two different stories here,” said Dave Rovelli, managing director of trading at Canaccord Adams....
...Oh, and he had three hours to spend talking to Adam Tanner, the Reuters reporter....
...“You have so many properties so far underwater that foreclosure or at least a short sale …is probably the only way out of the problem,” said Adam York, economist at Wachovia....
...The market is trying to figure out what equity and bond ownership means in an order that chooses direct intervention over Adam Smith’s “invisible hand”....
...The Fannie Mae 30-year mortgage rate dropped to 4.84 per cent, down from Monday’s close of 5.41 per cent....
...“The danger we face is a Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae scenario where government gives the banking sector guarantees and then socialises the losses,” says Adam Posen, an economist....
...As Adam Smith had foreseen in The Wealth of Nations, economic liberalisation had allowed the division of labour and comparative advantage to operate on a global scale....
...But Adam Cole at RBC Capital Markets said the news was unlikely to significantly boost the dollar’s recent rally, which had been driven by fears of a slowdown outside the US, rather than by improving attitudes...
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