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  Recs: 0 Buffett Says Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac `Game Is Ove Buffett Says Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac `Game Is Over' By Josh P. Hamilton Aug. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two largest mortgage finance companies, ``don't have any net worth,'' billionaire investor Warren Buffett said. ``The game is over'' as independent companies said Buffett, the ...

  Recs: 2 Buffett Says Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac `Game Is Over' Buffett Says Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac `Game Is Over' (Update4) By Josh P. Hamilton Aug. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two largest mortgage finance companies, ``don't have any net worth,'' billionaire investor Warren Buffett said. ``The game ...

  Recs: 1 Buffett Says Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac `Game Is Over' -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two largest mortgage finance companies, ``don't have any net worth,'' billionaire investor Warren Buffett said. ``The game is over'' as independent companies said Buffett, the 77-year-old chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., in an interview on CNBC today. ``They were able to ...

  Recs: 0 Buffett Says Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac `Game Is Over' Buffett Says Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac `Game Is Over' (Update2) 2008-08-22 12:01:06.970 GMT   (Adds Buffett comments in the fourth paragraph.) By Josh P. Hamilton Aug. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two largest mortgage finance companies, ``don't have any net worth,'' ...

http://www.bloomberg.com/....refer=home Aug. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two largest mortgage finance companies, ``don't have any net worth,'' billionaire investor Warren Buffett said. ``The game is over'' as independent companies said Buffett, the 77- year-old chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., in an interview on CNBC today. ``They were able to borrow...

Fannie, Freddie Fall on Likely Need for a Bailout (Update5) http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&am p;sid=arZlV9QbpXQ4&refer=worldwide By Dawn Kopecki Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac tumbled to about 18-year lows in New York trading on concern the government will be forced to bail out the mortgage-finance companies, wiping out common stockholders. ...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Daily Market Commentary for August 18, 2008 from Millennium-Traders.Com Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) and Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) were lower on the trading session with Treasury Department spokeswoman Jennifer Zuccarelli commenting today that they have no plans to use the authorities granted under recent legislation to prop up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. ( read ...

Daily Market Commentary for August 18, 2008 from Millennium-Traders.Com Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) and Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) were lower on the trading session with Treasury Department spokeswoman Jennifer Zuccarelli commenting today that they have no plans to use the authorities granted under recent legislation to prop up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. ( read more ) At the NYSE closing ...

Daily Market Commentary for August 18, 2008 from Millennium-Traders.Com Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) and Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) were lower on the trading session with Treasury Department spokeswoman Jennifer Zuccarelli commenting today that they have no plans to use the authorities granted under recent legislation to prop up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. (read more) http://www.millennium-...

Daily Market Commentary for August 18, 2008 from Millennium-Traders.Com Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) and Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) were lower on the trading session with Treasury Department spokeswoman Jennifer Zuccarelli commenting today that they have no plans to use the authorities granted under recent legislation to prop up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. ( read more ) At the NYSE closing bell ...

Quote: Originally Posted by Oisin ....the settling of the west and the vast wilderness theory is still forced on children in public schools K through 6.... I would describe it as less indoctrination and more of a complete lack of critical educational instruction, in public schools. BUT, the kids are learning "hustling 101" at most ...

"Do you think there are forces using every last resource attempting to hold it off until after our presidential election?"   Ding ,Ding, Ding!! We have a winner!   Yes, it's going to get worse after the election.   My proposal is: Fannie and freddie should be eliminated. There should be no tax advantage for paring mortgage interest. There should not be property taxes either.   Urge for ...

that means pulling up roots and making big changes" the gig is up... time to move your families to where industry and the economy are actually going towards" A pretty regional example to discuss globalization. Here's a part of a conversation from work the other day. Co-worker paraphrased: 'Well the Chinese one child policy is going to come back to bite them because when you look...

+1 One of the downsides to the fiat system. While I'm not sold on going back to the gold standard let's not pretend the current system is w/o flaws. This is one glaring example.

So, while the government makes it cheaper for people to buy homes by bailing out Fannie and Freddie - Why doesn't the government just bail out all of the real estate, "owners", in the country - give them the money to pay it off... Then, the government can also give free health care to everyone while their at it, since afterall - if you own a home, you want good health to live in it... While we'...

Fannie Mae was founded as a government agency in 1938 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal to provide liquidity to the mortgage market. For the next 30 years, Fannie Mae held a virtual monopoly on the secondary mortgage market in the United States. In 1968, to remove the activity of Fannie Mae from the annual balance sheet of the federal budget, it was converted into a private ...