Hints and tips:
...For the consequences of which they could blame Obama and Bush administration appointees? Good, I think....
...in the Washington Post Macron’s Democratic Vision — William Galston in the Wall Street Journal The ‘incel’ community and the dark side of the internet — Justin Ling and others in the Globe and Mail Bush...
...Now, look at a true star: Fannie Mae.” The star went supernova in 2008. But it was not only Fannie that failed to live up to its billing as a safe dividend payer....
...Yet, Republican lawmakers have long argued for the end of Fannie and Freddie....
...It is the curse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac....
...They are Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the paradoxical institutions that underpin the US mortgage market....
...It is quite clear that the non-bank rescues - especially Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - were designed with the banking sector (including investment banks) in mind....
...“In light of the fact that the last ones, Fannie and Freddie, were stolen from investors, it seems unlikely people will want to invest $500bn when that can happen again,” he said....
...Bush Institute, Dallas, TX, US, President, Capital Policy Analytics...
...But for more than 30 years, from Dwight Eisenhower to George H W Bush, lobbying in the nation’s capital was embodied in one perfect persona....
...“I’ll describe this as a timeout and defer the structure until later,” Mr Paulson told George W Bush, then president, according to his memoir....
...Perry Capital’s attorneys and advisers – from Ted Olson, solicitor-general under President George W Bush, to Tony Fratto, a former White House deputy spokesman – are political insiders and the firm has sought...
..., centrist figures whose parties veer left and right (Financial Times) The fight for Fannie and Freddie’s profits (Financial Times) Rolling the dice on Puerto Rico debt (WSJ) Houston and the rest of the...
...Mr Paulson, who was chief executive of Goldman Sachs before joining the Treasury under President George W Bush in 2006, said he approved of the sharp increase in US capital requirements enforced by the Federal...
...“It’s considerable private capital,” said Phillip Swagel, a professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy and a senior Treasury official under George W Bush....
...Bear in mind that it was George W Bush, a Republican president, who nationalised Fannie and Freddie in the heat of the crisis in September 2008 – not his more leftwing successor....
...In 2008, while on holiday in the Caribbean, Allison was asked the administration of George W Bush to become chief executive of Fannie Mae, the mortgage group that had just been bailed out by the government...
...Bush succeeded Clinton in 2000, he did nothing to stand in the way, buying into the prevailing so-called “affordable housing” ideology....
...The Clinton and Bush administrations pushed programmes to encourage buying. But the political winds have shifted towards heading off future financial crises....
...Bush made possible....
...The White House has indicated to allies that it will seek to replace Edward DeMarco at the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which regulates Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the underwriters of most US mortgages...
...The Bush administration’s “ownership society” initiative put that bubble in motion....
...There are three time bombs at year end: across-the board tax hikes (Bush tax cuts expiring), across-the board discretionary spending cuts (due to the failure of the Super Committee) and the debt ceiling...
...Foreign central banks that hold Fannie and Freddie debt are also now paying for advice on developments in Congress....
...Bush. “I would raise rates immediately on taxable income in excess of $1m,” Mr Buffett wrote in The New York Times, saying there were 236,883 such households in 2009....
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