Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said that economic activity has downshifted further and the policy response must be vigorous. He said cutting the Fed funds target rate below 1% is "certainly feasible", but broader action could be more efficient. "At this point, the scope for using...
Investors in the two government sponsored enterprises ( GSEs ) Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae got their hopes up early in the week based on speculations that federal regulators - specifically the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) - might allow the two mortgage giants to buy more home...
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Glenn Setzer
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Fri, Aug 10 2007
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Filed under: Freddie Mac, ofheo, Fannie Mae, SEC, Federal Reserve, credit crunch, countrywide, president bush, Christopher Dodd, gse, charles schumer, subprime market