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[275] Economist Paul Krugman wrote in January 2010 that Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, CRA, or predatory lending were not primary causes of the bubble/bust in residential real estate because there was a bubble of similar magnitude in commercial real estate in America. [276]
"Over the past decade Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have reduced required down payments on loans that they purchase in the secondary market. Those requirements have declined from 10% to 5% to 3% and in the past few months Fannie Mae announced that it would follow Freddie Mac's recent move into the 0% down payment mortgage market." [153]
The GSEs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were both placed in conservatorship in September 2008. [7] The two GSEs guaranteed or held mortgage-backed securities (MBS), mortgages, and other debt with a notional value of more than $5 trillion. [8] Merrill Lynch was acquired by Bank of America in September 2008 for $50 billion. [9]
In 2003, the amount of private-label securities issued was about half that of Fannie Mae's, but in 2004, dollar volumes of private-label securities increased dramatically, exceeding the levels of ...
source: Final Report of the National Commission on the Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis in the United States, p.229, figure 11.4 Credit rating agencies came under scrutiny following the mortgage crisis for giving investment-grade, "money safe" ratings to securitized mortgages (in the form of securities known as mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and collateralized debt obligations ...
Fannie Mae quietly scrapped a program that could have saved Americans thousands of dollars in insurance costs, reports say — here's what you need to know Bethan Moorcraft November 28, 2023 at 6: ...
Fannie Mae's 2014 financial results enabled it to pay $20.6 billion in dividends to Treasury for the year, resulting in a cumulative total of $134.5 billion in dividends through December 31, 2014 – approximately $18 billion more than Fannie Mae received in support.
A family that puts 20% down on a $400,000 home would pay $594 more each month now compared with the start of 2017. ... credit ratings of mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and other ...