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Joseph Lawler The Washington Examiner 12/14/2014 The government’s top housing finance regulator set up a fight with House Republicans for early next year as he raised the political stakes surrounding mortgage buyers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mel Watt pleased affordable-housing advocates last week by directing the bailed-out mortgage businesses […] December 14th, 2014 | Tags: affordable housing, bailouts, block grants, Capital Magnet Fund, housing crisis, Housing Trust Fund, Mel Watt | Category: Banking and finance, Congress, Fannie Mae, federal funding, Freddie Mac, States | Comments are closed
Charles C. Johnson The Daily Caller 5/5/2013 Mel Watt, President Obama’s nominee for director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, pushed government programs to help welfare recipients buy homes during the creation of the subprime mortgage bubble. Watt, a 20-year Member of Congress from North Carolina’s 12th district, also had a hand in programs allowing […] May 6th, 2013 | Tags: Bank of America, Federal Housing Finance Agency, housing crisis, Mel Watt, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Pathways to Homeownership, Rep. Barney Frank, Richard Griffin, subprime crisis | Category: Banking and finance, Barack Obama, corruption, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Unions | Comments are closed
Brian Freedom’s Lighthouse 2/12/2013 Here is video of Sen. Marco Rubio’s GOP Response to President Obama’s State of the Union Address tonight. Rubio emphasized the principle that bigger Government is not the solution to what ails America. President Obama is proposing larger and larger Government. He made a strong case for the need to get […] February 13th, 2013 | Tags: "climate change", American exceptionalism, balanced budget amendment, Chris Kyle, class warfare, cocaine, domestic energy development, Frank Luntz, housing crisis, Justice Antonin Scalia, Santa Monica, Sean Hannity, Sen. Marco Rubio, sequestration, State of the Union Address, tax reform | Category: Barack Obama, California, Economy, Entitlements, Federal spending, Government programs, Taxes, US Constitution, Video | Comments are closed
Ed Morrissey HotAir.com 7/6/2012 If one wanted to craft a strategy to make the home-mortgage market even less stable, increase already-unsustainable public debt, and erode private property rights even further than we have already seen, it would be hard to top a new idea from California, of all places. Two cities have fashioned a plan […] July 8th, 2012 | Tags: Eminent Domain, housing crisis, housing market, Justice David Souter, Kelo v. City of New London, mortgages, property, San Bernardino County, Susette Kelo | Category: Banking and finance, California, Communism, Fascism, Politicians, Progressives, Property rights, SCOTUS, Taxes | Comments are closed
Ylan Q. Mui The Washington Post 6/11/2012 The recent recession wiped out nearly two decades of Americans’ wealth, according to government data released Monday, with middle-class families bearing the brunt of the decline. The Federal Reserve said the median net worth of families plunged by 39 percent in just three years, from $126,400 in 2007 […] June 13th, 2012 | Tags: Debt, Great Recession, housing crisis | Category: Economy, Federal Reserve, United States | Comments are closed
ReasonTV YouTube 4/3/2012 “Ben Bernanke fancies himself as a student of the Great Depression,” says renowned investment broker, global strategist, author, and Austrian economist Peter Schiff, “but… if he were my student he would have gotten an F.” During a lecture entitled “The Fed Unspun: The Other Side of the Story”, Schiff responded to […] April 4th, 2012 | Tags: Ben Bernanke, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Federal Reserve Modernization Act, FreedomWorks, gold standard, H.R. 4180, housing crisis, Peter Schiff, Rep. Kevin Brady, S. 2247, Sen. Mike Lee, The Great Depression, U.S. Dollar | Category: "Stimulus" program, Banking and finance, Congress, Economy, Fannie Mae, Federal Reserve, Freddie Mac, Video | Comments are closed
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