Senate Democrats led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), the ranking member of the Banking Committee, called on the Trump ...

Trump appears to be pushing forward with a plan to publicly list shares of government-backed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and ...

Fannie and Freddie’s job as private companies was to buy, insure and repackage mortgages, blessing them on the way with its ...

Trump’s idea to take the mortgage giants public has triggered a debate about the risks and potential benefits.

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President Donald Trump is ready to make major reforms to government-owned housing-finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ...

When the Federal Reserve began cutting interest rates in September, most economists anticipated a corresponding drop in ...

The movie “The Big Short” — dramatizing the reckless behavior in the banking and mortgage industries that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis — captures much of Wall Street’s misconduct but ...

The capital structures of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are a little complicated, but here’s roughly the situation 1: The ...

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Trump recently vowed to relist the government’s shares in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, federally-backed agencies that purchase ...

Fannie Mae (1938) and Freddie Mac (1970) were created with the end goal of promoting homeownership across the United States.