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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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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