Hints and tips:
...This year, rising mortgage rates have resulted in falling sales across France....
...The first of these is that most mortgage market people do not believe it is possible to sell Fannie and Freddie mortgage-backed securities without a government “wrap”....
...Economists think it could go further and start to buy such bonds — as the US Federal Reserve did recently....
...And last year, the Federal Housing Administration cut its mortgage insurance fee so as to save borrowers up to $900 a year....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Most unlikely....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Open question. Depends if he injects a major fiscal stimulus....
...Last month, the Association of British Insurers stated: “This industry report cannot give commitments that particular products will be developed....
...Fannie Mae – formally the Federal National Mortgage Association – was created by the Roosevelt administration in 1938 when the country was mired in the Great Depression, originally as a government agency...
...- Felix Salmon on DeMarco v Geithner - Finance must escape the shadows. - ECB Q&A: will we see a big bazooka or pea-shooter on Thursday? - Fed in the dark on jobs....
...A judge in Regina v....
...Whether the recovery is V-shaped, as consensus believes, or U-shaped and anaemic as I have argued, asset prices should be moving gradually higher....
...- Rogoff: “The fault lies not in Lehman, but in ourselves…” - V-shaped revenue recovery combined with L-shaped capex growth. - Will commercial real estate woes sink pensions?...
...- Modelling Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – Part V. - Good news: bank robberies are down. - Running low on ammo. - Lending standards tighten, loan demand weakens....
...The Federal Reserve last week began buying mortgages backed by government agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, part of its planned purchase of $500bn over the coming months....
...A separate report by the Institute of Fiscal Studies claimed that the victor of the next election would have to put up taxes or cut spending by £20bn....
...Association of Realtors....
...Sir Victor Blank rubbished reports that the job losses would reach 40,000, but Eric Daniels, who will be chief executive of the combined group, was less upbeat, admitting that he could not pledge that there...
...Lakshmi Mittal, the Indian steel magnate, and Victor Pinchuk, the Ukrainian oligarch, are donors....
...Victor Schwartz, counsel for the American Tort Reform Association, who has worked with Ms Miers in her capacity as White House counsel, says she is “the John Roberts of the Texas bar”....
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