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1. STEALING HOME: The New Hope?

   "We still have a lot more foreclosures to come and further home price declines," Zandi said. He said home prices, which have already fallen 30 percent since the peak of the housing boom, would drop by another 5 percent by next spring. .... Last month, Fannie Mae - the mortgage finance giant - said homeowners who walk away without first trying to work out the problem with their lender would not be eligible for a Fannie Mae loan for seven years. Luckily for Tracy Diggs, ...

1. Passing on the loans | Samizdata.net

   The idea is that by packaging loans and other IOUs into big parcels, and then selling these packages to end-investors such as pension funds or life firms, that the risks inherent in the individual mortgages and loans are spread out among a wide ..... They used Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (neither of which should have been created in the first place - any more than the Federal Reserve should have been) to direct the money - but they had other tools and other influence. ...

1. The Problem with Pensions | John Mauldin | Safehaven.com

   Recall that on Christmas Eve 2009, the Treasury Department waived a $400 billion limit on financial assistance to Fannie and Freddie, pledging unlimited help. The actual vehicle for the bailout could be the Bush-era Home Affordable .... The report also found that when a central government state-owned enterprise (SOE) was a winning bidder for land, prices rose by about 27% more than if they had not been involved, thus showing the influence that SOEs bring to bear on land ...