At Fannie, The Ties That Blind
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AFTER hemming and hawing and bobbing and weaving, the board of directors of Fannie Mae finally jettisoned Franklin D. Raines, the mortgage finance giant&#39;s former chief executive, and Timothy Howard, its former chief financial officer, last week.
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Just how deep is the rot at one of America&#39;s bedrock corporations, Fannie Mae? The picture should be a little clearer after Frank Raines, its chairman and chief executive, testifies before Congress on Wednesday.
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The American fetish for homeownership can lead to some perverted outcomes.
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As investigations intensify, the auction house severs ties with its parent.
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The mortgage brokers, traders and bankers who took in big bucks steering customers into subprime loans should not be allowed to slink offstage without recognition.
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Fannie Mae, the quaintly named mortgage company that sounds like a minor character from TV&#39;s &quot;The Beverly Hillbillies,&quot; is, in fact, the nation&#39;s second-largest financial institution.
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Fannie MaeÂs chief, Franklin Raines, once seen as a rising star and possible future Treasury secretary, may have to reassess his ambitions.
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Fannie Mae, the nation&#39;s top source of financing for home mortgages, will likely survive the accounting problems, investigations, and regulatory actions that it now faces - and it must â-ay some industry sources.
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Pessimism is greatest among those closest to the financial system, so while some take a working financial system for granted, others see a system in crisis.
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A state program in Illinois designed to counsel borrowers on their mortgages may help homeowners, but some say it is unnecessary government intrusion.
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Former Fannie Mae chairman Franklin D. Raines is trying to draw the White House into his defense against a shareholder lawsuit alleging that he and the government-sponsored mortgage funding company misled investors when Fannie Mae overstated earnings by billions of dollars.
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Few people know much about mortgage giant Fannie Mae aside from its TV ads, which paint the company as the $1 trillion version of George Bailey&#39;s savings and loan in It&#39;s a Wonderful Life.
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Fannie Mae&#39;s board of directors may have found it hard to get rid of the company&#39;s top two executives, but a difficult job remains in navigating the transition to the next senior management team.
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Records raise new questions about the business practices of the giant mortgage lender at the center of the subprime mess.
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Corporate spin can be a powerful thing. Just ask Fannie Mae&#39;s investors. They spent the last year hearing the mortgage giant&#39;s chief executive Franklin D. Raines continually
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Unlike the problems in recent financial scandals, issues raised by Fannie Mae's regulators pertain to unwieldy accounting rules that are open to widely divergent interpretations.
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A shocking expose hit the Street last week about one of the best-loved, most all-American companies out there: Fannie Mae, the mortgage and financial services giant.