Topic: Fannie Mae

Good News From the Past and the Dump

Some good news and reasons to be hopeful.READ»

Sustainable Economics Rings Hollow In America

Today, China leads the world at 9.8% GDP growth, followed by India 8.8% likely to remain throughout 2010. Among the developing market highlights, International Monetary Fund data tracks accurately Brazil 5.5%, South ...READ»

Are You a Struggling Homeowner?

If you owe more than your home is worth and are struggling to keep your home under the current housing crisis, you should know help is on the way.        You might be able to modify and ...READ»

What is a short sale?

A short sale is a real estate transaction in which the proceeds from a property sale are less than what is owed on the property. A short sale occurs when the borrower is unable to fulfill his or her financial responsibilities to ...READ»

How to Successfully Rescue Residential Real Estate

The federal government should self-refinance the original mortgages directly with homeowners at 4% fixed for 20 or 30 years, ultimately turning these mortgages into GNMAs.READ»

The March Group

The March Group LLC, The March Group American Funds, the largest manager of stock mutual funds, sold most of its holdings in PetroChina Co. after pressure from rights groups over the oil-and-gas company’s investments in Sudan. READ»

Wall Street's Mood Reflects China's Growing Dominance

Wall Street's new sarcastic catch-phrase; “The United States of China”.  Accurately reflects, China's two trillion dollar sovereign wealth fund surplus that just snapped up over $9 billion worth of shares in some of ...READ»

FEDERAL RESERVE BERNANKE PLANS EXIT STRATEGY FROM STIMULUS

As the economy sluggishly progresses towards recovery and President Obama announces new spending freezes. The Federal Reserve is focused on pulling back the billions in stimulus money pumped out to dampen the financial crisis. Set now ...READ»

Patrice Green Houston - Saving our economy

Sweet Success Enterprises, Inc. (OTCBB : SWTS), which has relaunched a product line made popular by Nestle’s to tap into the rapidly growing demand for convenient and nutritious beverages, filed Form 10-Q containing financial ...READ»

Matt Barrett & the CEO Mindset | Biz Money Matters |

If you're interested in how to develop a winning CEO mindset, I recommend you copy key pages from the Matt Barrett management play book if you can. Here's how.READ»

HomePath Financing - A Low Down Payment Option for Investors

HomePath Financing is a great program that's offered to first and second time home buyers and investors. Fannie Mae is doing what they can to stimulate the housing market by offering a program to all potential buyers with a program that requires little down, lower monthly payments, and the elimination of probable deal killers (closing costs and home appraisals).READ»

Residential Real Estate by the Numbers

It may be a buyer's market out there, but it isn't a broker's. Which makes this year's theme at the 2009 Realtors' Conference in San Diego (November 13 -- 16) -- "Chart a Winning Course" (keynoter: Condi Rice) -- seem both hopeful and sad. Here's a look at the business of homes.READ»

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The Truth about the Credit Crunch

Revisiting the Debt-to-Income Ratio RuleREAD»

It is Leadership Character that Will Get Us Through this Recession

Two Kinds of LeadersSo if you have been reading my blogs – firstly I thank you, and secondly you will know that I come from the platform that there are two kinds of leaders – those who lead with ego and those who lead with ...READ»

Housing Recovery Plan: What's Fair?

Jose D. Roncalwww.financialspecultaion.comThere have been so many bail-out packages, stimulus proposals and other unprecedented plans designed to save the economy, it's become nearly impossible for the casual observer to keep track of ...READ»

Seven Mysteries Online This Week

Weird things happen, yes--but when technology is the cause, everything seems more confusing. Didn't we build these things? Don't we know how they work? Here are seven quiddities topping the social news sites this week. Amazon Steals ...READ»

FIG LEAP

This commentary outlines specific areas for investment and valuation in the financial investment group sector.READ»

PULLING THE TRIGGER(S)

Shawn Baldwin from CMG in ChicagoREAD»

The End of the Financial World as We Know It

By MICHAEL LEWIS and DAVID EINHORN AMERICANS enter the New Year in a strange new role: financial lunatics. We’ve been viewed by the wider world with mistrust and suspicion on other matters, but on the subject of money even our ...READ»

Hennion and Walsh: What's Ahead For The Financial System?

"With the continued news and noise around AIG, Washington Mutual, Lehman Bros. and Merrill Lynch, it all seems like it's going up to a crescendo in terms of the doom and gloom and bad news."READ»

Call to Action for Sustainabilty Leadership in Tough Economic Climate

Last week I had the benefit of spending two and a half days with roughly 150 other “green” marketers, sustainability officers and other champions of our environmental movement. The event, called Good and Green, was organized by ...READ»

A Wall to Push Off...

To intervene or not to intervene. That is the raging debate on our satellites. That is the raging debate around our water coolers. ‘Let them fail!’ or “They are too big to fail.’ But it is far deeper and more subtle than ...READ»

Edward Norton's $9,000,000,000 Housing Project (that's $9 Billion)

The actor's "family business" has helped shelter tens of thousands of Americans. Now it is taking on the credit crunch with innovative financing and a green-building initiative.READ»

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What To Do When You're In The Investment Rapids...

With the political world in turbulence, how can we expect anything different from the markets? Due to the political transition, the uncertainties surrounding fiscal stimulus, tax policy, regulatory policy, trade policy, and leverage standards, many participants don’t know the rules of the game any more.READ»

The Treasury, Mosquitoes, and Unintended Consequences

The moves of our Federal Reserve and Treasury in the last few weeks are gigantic in scope. Decades from now students will study 2008 when the financial markets changed, when the relationship between the government and the private ...READ»