Topic: Fannie Mae

Reflections on a Depression: I’ve Got All This Blame, Where do I Put it?

Wherever he is, Chicken Little is probably grinning. For many Americans these days, it feels like the sky is falling, and financially speaking, the evidence supports Mr. Little’s claim. The consensus around here is that we are ...READ»

CEO See-Ya!

This month: Franklin D. Raines, CEO of Fannie Mae.READ»

You Can Take That to the Bank...Not!

A Kick In the Career: In this week's column, humorist and career expert Tom Stern takes a stab at the banking industry, but promises there's light at the end of the tunnel.READ»

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Deadly Sins of Mentoring

How to make a mentoring relationship work.READ»

Extreme Perks

Need ideas on how to keep your employees happy? Check out these employee benefits.READ»

How to Lead Now

Getting Extraordinary Performance When You Can't Pay for It.READ»

Where Women Want to Work

Earlier this week, I was pleased to see former Fast Company staffer Jill Kirschenbaum on television, as well as quoted in several newspaper articles. The reason? Now editor in chief of Working Mother magazine, Jill was talking about ...READ»

See Ya, Franklin!

Back in July, our "CEO See-ya" column called for the ouster of Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines, citing his company's consistently poor financial performance and an investigation of its questionable accounting practices. At the time ...READ»

Evolutionary Economics: Bottom Up Solutions to Business Problems

A new science called evolutionary economics offers fresh insights into how the business landscape isn't controlled from the top.READ»

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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»

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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»

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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Good to Great

Start with 1,435 good companies. Examine their performance over 40 years. Find the 11 companies that became great. Now, here's how you can do it too.READ»

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Social Capitalists: Profiles

Center For Community Self-Help Founded: 1980 Durham, North Carolina Martin Eakes, Cofounder, President, and CEO www.self-help.org Entrepreneurship: A- Innovation: B+ Social Impact: A Aspiration: B Sustainability: B+ ...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»

What's Going On? From Wall Street to Main Street.

There is blood in the streets of America’s businesses both small and large.  On Wall Street, the collapse of financial institutions, the bailouts of Freddie, Fannie, Bear Sterns and now AIG.  500 point daily drops in the Dow ...READ»

From Foosball to Flextime: Dotcommers Are Growing Up

Who needs stock options if there's on-site daycare? Old-economy companies and benefits are starting to look mighty appealing to battered dotcommers.READ»

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