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...The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rose to 6.02 per cent, up from 5.89 per cent a week ago and 2.86 per cent in the same week last year, according to Freddie Mac’s weekly survey....
...Rodham, an entertaining novel, reimagines Hillary Rodham’s life without marriage to Bill Clinton....
...When most of Wall Street backed Hillary Clinton, John Paulson was a rare supporter of Mr Trump....
...Mae and Freddie Mac to buy up all mortgages, the chain reaction began that started the financial crisis....
...A police officer involved in the arrest of Freddie Gray has been found not-guilty on all charges, one year after the young African-American’s death in police custody sparked the worst riots in Baltimore...
...Lambert, whose open homosexuality had been stoutly ignored by the show, went on to top the Billboard charts, as well as touring in the Freddie Mercury spot with Queen....
...Some critics blame his “zero tolerance” crime policies for fostering an environment that produced the kind of police brutality that last month resulted in the death of a young African-American man called Freddie...
...Now, nearly a decade later, after taking aim at “Liddle” Marco Rubio, “Lyin’” Ted Cruz and “Crooked” Hillary Clinton, Mr Trump hopes to win a spot in the White House....
...Their brothers have largely channelled their fortunes elsewhere: Freddie, the eldest, into the arts, and Bill into a victorious America’s Cup effort....
...legislating public surpluses in a western economy whose bonds are still treated (to some degree) as reserve assets may not be advisable, look no further than the US experience with the budget surpluses of the Clinton...
...Mrs Clinton painted the issue in broad terms, saying the consequences of imprisoning so many was “profound” because of the economic implications....
...National Guard troops were positioned across Baltimore after the rioting that erupted on Monday following the funeral of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who died in police custody from unexplained...
...links the Kansas City-born singer to “Afrofuturism”, a tradition in African-American music inspired by other-worldly imagery of aliens, robotics and space travel, as epitomised by Jimi Hendrix and George Clinton...
...And as the capital of Georgia, the city has received visits from several of Washington’s political heavyweights in recent weeks, including Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama, in a failed attempt to win the...
...John Podesta, a former chief of staff to Bill Clinton and occasional adviser to Mr Obama, will be appointed as a new counsellor to the president, officials familiar with the issue said....
...and Bush, 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...
...The banks’ main argument is that Fannie and Freddie knew what they were buying and the banks should not be held responsible....
...In part, this was due to a $95 bn payment from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but more than half of the revision was due to $105 bn in unexpected higher tax revenues....
...Mr Koskinen was last tapped by a president when the Bush administration appointed him chairman of Freddie Mac following the mortgage company’s bailout. He became interim chief executive in 2009....
...Future of Forecasting, by Alan Greenspan, Allen Lane RRP£25/Penguin Press RRP$36, 400 pages It was my privilege to work closely with Alan Greenspan for the eight years I served at the Treasury during the Clinton...
...Mr Osborne’s advisers insist that the new “Help to Buy” scheme will not lay the foundations for a UK-style Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac....
...The bulk of the Fannie and Freddie money is still outstanding....
...Wooing a former rival, such as Hillary Clinton, is one thing – and it made strong political sense for Mr Obama to do that in 2008. But Mr Huntsman could give no guarantee he wouldn’t repeat offend....
...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....
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