Henry Paulson

Bond Report: Covered bonds offer hope for sustainable housing market (at MarketWatch)

yahoo.com     3 hrs ago          

Covered bonds offer hope to the housing market Might bring relief to mortgage-finance funk - but no send it back to heyday By Deborah Levine, MarketWatch NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- "If it catches on and works for the market, it...                    

Freddie Mac reports loss of $821 million

washingtonpost.com     yesterday   81 related          

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Freddie Mac on Wednesday posted its fourth consecutive quarterly loss, set plans to slash its common stock dividend and warned of more difficulty ahead amid the steepest U.S. housing market slump since the...                    

Morgan Stanley tapped for Freddie, Fannie advice

cnn.com     yesterday   16 related          

Treasury says firm will help it with options under new authority. Paste this link into your favorite RSS desktop reader See all CNNMoney.com RSS FEEDS By Tami Luhby, CNNMoney.com senior writer NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The...                    

Indian confirmed for prestigious Treasury job

rediff.com     yesterday          

Neel Kashkari, who was nominated by President George W Bush to the post of Assistant Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs, has been confirmed by the Senate and has begun work in his new job, even if it is only for...                    

Editorial: Housing bill stabilizes mortgage business

gvnews.com     yesterday          

Published: Tuesday, August 5, 2008 9:33 PM MDT When Congress and the president both see a need to get something done, it sure doesn’t take long for the legislation to move forward. That’s the case with the housing bill that...                    

America's Most In-Debt Households

forbes.com     Aug 5, 2008          

In California's Central Valley, one of the nation's foreclosure epicenters, it seems that the only real estate brokerage business with potential buyers to spare is Repo Home Tours, a bus operator that takes weekly jaunts...                    

Truce Time in the Fan-Fred Wars

wsj.com     Aug 5, 2008          

Is it over? Not only have they ignored the policy decisions Congress made in the housing bill, they've tried to rewrite history to make their case. Many important policy issues have been raised over the past decade about Fannie...                    

Paulson: China must recognize global trade role

reuters.com     Aug 4, 2008   6 related          

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Monday China should accept greater responsibilities for its growing economic influence and he chided Beijing for what he called a protectionist stance in...                    

Today in The Nation: Economic Free Fall

thenation.com     Aug 4, 2008   3 related          

Washington can act with breathtaking urgency when the right people want something done. First, while throwing our money at Wall Street, government is neglecting the grave risk of a deeper catastrophe for the real economy of...                    

The Last Government Rescue

istockanalyst.com     Aug 4, 2008   1 related          

A regularly scheduled meeting between Treasury Secretary Paulson and Fed Chairman Bernanke is hastily expanded to include the CEOs of Fannie Mae and General Motors, plus former Fed Chairmen Alan Greenspan and Paul Volcker. The...                    

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