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Fannie Mae Failure

Fannie Mae cuts jobs in mortgage division as they add jobs to combat foreclosures

by Moe Bedard

Fannie Mae  is cutting hundreds of local jobs at its Washington headquarters as it adds workers to combat foreclosures.

Fannie said it’s cutting jobs in its communications, technology and single-family homes divisions and adding staff to its Dallas division where Fannie Mae operates their foreclosure prevention and loss mitigation efforts. The job reductions in Washington are [...]

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Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac Failure: The Lies, the Cover Ups and the Making of a Disaster

by Moe Bedard

Wall Street Journal October 4, 2004:
Fannie Mae isn’t an ordinary company and this isn’t a run-of-the-mill accounting scandal. The U.S. government had no financial stake in the failure of Enron or WorldCom. But because of Fannie’s implicit subsidy from the federal government, taxpayers are on the hook if its capital cushion is insufficient to absorb [...]

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