Fannie and Freddie in the Crosshairs?

It’s summer in Washington, and, as we’ve been reporting, housing reform is in the air. The bipartisan Corker-Warner bill and the Republican-backed PATH (Protecting American Taxpayers and Homeowners) Act are aiming to revamp government housing policy, and both bills...

Dueling Bills Try to Control Housing Policy

Capitol Hill is taking aim at housing finance reform. With not one, but two new bills in contention for reforming the government’s role in home loans and homeowner bailouts, legislators on both sides of the aisle are competing to form a new, but not necessarily kinder...

Changes Are Coming for Government Housing Policies

As the Federal Reserve prepares to wind down its bond buying stimulus plan, policymakers in Washington are debating proposals to make drastic changes to the whole housing finance system – changes whose impact isn’t yet clearly understood. That’s why Fed Chairman...

How the Fed Affects Everybody’s Life

The Federal Reserve has been hovering in the headlines over the past few months, as investors and financial institutions around the world keep a close eye on its plans to buy massive amounts of mortgage backed securities. Although it might seem that the Fed’s...

When the Fed Reserve Levee Breaks: Inflation!

Back when Ben Bernanke and his mob over at the Federal Reserve began talking about quantitative easing (QE), we wrongly assumed that the Fed chairman wanted his mammoth cash infusion to actually reach the economy via loans from private banks to small business. How...