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...Letter in response to this report:Immigrants are being dehumanised by UK / From Bruno W Boesch, London W11, UK...
...Interscope acts, such as Lady Gaga, sported them in music videos; Premier League footballers and NBA stars such as LeBron James wore them on their way to compete....
...[And] it’s hard to be optimistic that they are coming back any time soon,” says Ron Haskins, a former welfare adviser to President George W Bush....
...“We don’t have anything against the English,” Mac explains. “But you should take your liberty when you can.”...
...“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....
...(Financial Times) James Murdoch is being lined up to take direct responsibility for News Corp’s US television businesses, the FT has learnt....
...When George W. Bush succeeded Clinton in 2000, he did nothing to stand in the way, buying into the prevailing so-called “affordable housing” ideology....
...W: Don’t worry about Culture Boy....
...Democrats and the White House are defending themselves by arguing that the high budget deficit is partly the result of spending and tax policies inherited from George W. Bush....
...administration sought to regain the initiative on Tuesday on reform of US housing finance, calling a public meeting on the issue next month as it prepares to deliver an overhaul plan for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...
...James Lockhart, regulator and effective head of US mortgage behemoths Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, is leaving the job to pursue a career in the financial services industry....
...By July last year, the scale of the losses had prompted the administration of George W. Bush to pass legislation to regulate the two enterprises more closely....
...James Lockhart’s successor as director of the agency that regulates Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will hold much of the US mortgage market in his hands when he takes the helm....
...The Treasury announced its own plan this week for a more systematic modification of loans held by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac....
...the lax regulation of Wall Street promoted by the Bush administration and supported by congressional Republicans is to blame, while many Republicans believe that Democrats allowed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...
...An intensified effort to exploit government control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to drive down US mortgage costs and cushion a decline in house prices could start soon....
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...The bill now moves to the Senate and the White House for President George W. Bush’s signature early next week at the latest....
...The White House said it approved of certain provisions, such as a plan to create a new, stricter regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored mortgage companies....
...Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have long benefited from investors’ confidence that the government would step in to save the two mortgage companies in a crisis....
...Richard Shelby, the powerful Republican senator, on Friday said that the US Treasury department’s plan to rescue Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could be approved by Congress within two weeks, in a sign that...
...“Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are… working through this challenging period,” Mr Paulson said....
...Hank Paulson, the Treasury secretary, said on Friday the Treasury’s “primary focus” was to support Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in their “current form”....
...However, the Fed said there had been “no discussions” with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on access to the discount window....
...The White House’s budget calculations do not include the possibility the government might have to intervene with a large capital injection to shore up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the troubled mortgage companies...
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