Hints and tips:
...Alternatively, what about letting the wildfire burn through the system in 2008, Ayn Rand style, and then picking up the charred pieces of Freddie and Fannie afterwards?...
...Dutton’s comments also came days after Paul Keating, the former Australian prime minister, said Taiwan was “not a vital Australian interest” and that Canberra should not be drawn into a conflict with Beijing...
...If and when EU banks are required to publish their GAR, it may “[force] lending shifts as [banks] seek ‘greener’ assets and reduce funding for ‘brown’ assets,” Fitch writes....
...Job moves Celeste Mellet Brown was named chief financial officer at Evercore, the first woman to hold the position at the New York investment bank. Mellet Brown was previously CFO of Fannie Mae....
...And many in-flights have been more creative than anything on newsstands — think of Virgin Atlantic’s almost postmodern Carlos magazine in 2003, wholly illustrated on brown paper, or the arthouse redesign...
...“The Trump plan will make mortgages more expensive and harder to get,” said Sherrod Brown, a senator from Ohio and the committee’s top Democrat....
...Sherrod Brown, the leading Democrat on the Senate banking committee, told the FT in May he was “not optimistic” about Congressional attempts to reform the two companies....
...Sherrod Brown, the lead Democrat on the Senate banking committee, has said he is “not optimistic” about the chances of privatising Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac after more than a decade under government control...
...Each in their own careless fashion, Conservatives and Labour are confirming the insight of Michael Keating, politics professor at Aberdeen university, who says that “most multinational unions collapse at...
...Meanwhile, Celeste Brown who joined as deputy finance chief a year ago was named Mr Benson’s successor. Both appointments will take effect next month....
...“It’s not really the starting gun for independence,” said Michael Keating, professor of politics at Aberdeen university....
...Earlier this month it bought the Chicago-based Fannie May confectioner for $115m. In 2015, the Piedmontese producer bought UK chocolatier Thorntons for £112m and Oltan, a Turkish hazelnut maker....
...In the US, the status of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the community reinvestment act, were not determined by the Fed, which did not have the power to regulate the rating agencies....
...Maggie Brown, a C4 historian and media commentator, said: “David Abraham is right to say this period of uncertainty is very sapping and undermining for Channel 4....
...Senator Sherrod Brown, a senior Democrat, said: “This isn’t draining the swamp — it’s stocking it with alligators.”...
...His career flourished at the Wall Street bank, and his assignments during the financial crisis included advising the US Treasury on how to deal with mortgage backers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac....
...A stream of social democrats — including a young Tony Blair and Gordon Brown — made the pilgrimage to Canberra to look and learn....
...Senate banking committee members Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, and David Vitter, a Republican, on Friday proposed amendments to the bill that would limit the concentration of large banks in the mortgage market...
...Mark Blyth, Brown University, Providence RI, US...
...“I think they are in trouble,” says Michael Keating, professor of Scottish politics at the University of Aberdeen....
...first part of Help to Buy, in which the government offers equity loans worth up to 20 per cent of the price of new build homes – is less controversial and evolved from similar schemes operated by Gordon Brown...
...“When it comes to personalities the Nationalists are more popular, but that’s not enough to shift opinions on independence,” Professor Keating says....
...Defined benefit pensions were then hit further when Gordon Brown, the chancellor at the time, abolished the dividend tax credit in 1997, which cut pension fund income and dented solvency....
...The current committee is examining ways to wind down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage companies that had to be bailed out by the government during the financial crisis....
...Mark Blyth, Professor of International Political Economy, Brown University, US...
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