On Monday, September 30, the US Treasury and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the independent agency that is the regulator and conservator of Freddie Mac and Fannie…
The US Treasury released in early September its much-awaited Housing Reform Plan in response to the Presidential Memorandum of March 2019. The plan has a lot of specific and…
When policymakers focus on legislative reform of the GSEs, a core principle widely espoused is to increase competition, to get away from the Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae duopoly.…
The US Treasury’s much-awaited Housing Reform Plan, identifying recommended legislative and administrative changes of the government sponsored enterprises (GSEs), issued last…
New stress test results for the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, released on August 15, did not seem to get much media coverage beyond…
Ever since the dust settled from the 2008 financial crisis, there has been focus in Washington on what to do with the two main government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs),…
The latest administration pronouncements about the reform of the two giant government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, as delivered in the President’…
It is well understood that housing, broadly defined, generates a tremendous share of US GDP – roughly one-sixth in fact, with only the healthcare sector being larger. And for…
