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Showdown: Rove vs Williams

By Jim Vicevich / October 2, 2009 /

It started innocently enough. Karl Rove explains it’s not the Olympic fiasco that is hurting Obama … it’s not even this month’s unemployment rate, it’s Obama’s overall handling of the economy. Juan steps in it when he accuses Rove and the Bush administration of doing nothing to stop the financial meltdown and that’s when Rove…

Thomas Sowell On The Housing Crisis

By Jim Vicevich / February 24, 2009 /

Thomas Sowell is a very bright man with uncommon common sense. A guest on my show only once (he is very tough to nail down), a free market thinker he does a great job of tracing the root cause of the current financial crisis, an even if you are one to believe that “greedy bankers”…

AP story notes Republican involvement in GSE mess

By Steve McGough / December 7, 2008 / Comments Off on AP story notes Republican involvement in GSE mess

I’m fully on board with blaming Democrat lawmakers in Washington for contributing to the mortgage crisis that started with Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Republicans introduced legislation that would more closely regulate the government sponsored entities (GSEs). Democrats – including Barney Frank (D-Mass.) – blocked that legislation, all but calling those asking for the changes…

How does a 4.5% mortgage sound to you?

By Steve McGough / December 4, 2008 / Comments Off on How does a 4.5% mortgage sound to you?

As I walked through the living room just now, I heard talk of a 4.5 percent fixed rate mortgage on Fox News. Financial industry lobbyists are knocking on Hank Paulson’s door at the Treasury Department with a plan in hand to lower interest rates to help “stabilize” the housing market. Will everyone be able to…

Rahm Emanuel tied to Freddie Mac – nothing to see here

By Steve McGough / November 7, 2008 / Comments Off on Rahm Emanuel tied to Freddie Mac – nothing to see here

Just who is Obama’s new chief of staff? I’ve been a bit behind this week in reading due to other commitments, but this afternoon was when I first heard about Obama’s pick. Guess who served on the board of Freddie Mac in 2000 and 2001?

Walter Williams writes – Lessons from the bailout

By Steve McGough / October 8, 2008 /

Williams has another good column out this week, and it quickly sums up – for those of you who missed it – how this economic crisis started back in 1977 with the Community Reinvestment Act. Walter’s point gets right to the root of the problem. Even though McCain and Obama want to lay the blame…

To occupiers blaming Wall Street: The major cause of the 2008 collapse is…

By Steve McGough / October 12, 2011 /

The complete and total break down of the mortgage industry. It’s the primary reason you may have lost your home, are underwater with your mortgage, or can’t find a job. It was not Wall Street greed, it was the federal government who tinkered with the rules and screwed it up for everyone.

Obama provides unlimited loss coverage to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

By Steve McGough / December 26, 2009 /

A Christmas Eve White House decision that nobody will notice. President Obama and his treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, have elected to increase loss coverage for the Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSE) of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from $200 billion to unlimited for the next three years.

Frank demands lender ease mortgage requirements

By Steve McGough / June 24, 2009 /

Isn’t this how we got into the mortgage mess? Democrats in Congress are asking Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to relax mortgage standards again.

McCain finally slams Obama on Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae

By Steve McGough / October 6, 2008 /

When you see this post, immediately send it to everyone in your e-mail list. I’m not a big McCain fan, but certainly you’re going to find me voting for the most conservative of the bunch – who is able to win – in four weeks. Today in New Mexico, McCain brought up the fact that…