The movie “The Big Short” — dramatizing the reckless behavior in the banking and mortgage industries that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis — captures much of Wall Street’s misconduct but ...

For the 2024 fiscal year, the federal government made roughly a $6.8 trillion business in terms of outlays to fund a broad ...

Fannie and Freddie "buy and package home loans" into mortgage-backed securities that get sold to investors. Currently, those ...

With a near-record $35 trillion tied up in U.S. home equity, households are dipping into their housing wealth to pay for ...

Fannie Mae (1938) and Freddie Mac (1970) were created with the end goal of promoting homeownership across the United States.

President Donald Trump posted last week about his intent to take Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two government-sponsored entities that provide guarantees for most mortgage loans, out of federal ...

Addressing concerns over privatization, FHFA Director William Pulte appeared on a recent Fox Business program to reassure ...

The Trump administration has looked at making Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac public companies while keeping them under ...

The last time Fannie and Freddie had unfettered ability to speculate on our dime, those crony enterprises helped bring down ...

Action on U.S. tariff policies and a potentially seismic shift in secondary market activity hasn’t caused much movement for ...

Signs are emerging that the Trump administration may be less willing to give up control of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac than investors have bargained for, as policymakers scrounge for ...

The vehicle invests in secondary agency RMBS, which hold enough credibility to act as collateral for repo lenders. Moreover, ...